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Installation    of  the    lM"rst    President 


OF    THE 


University   of  Virginia 


Dr.  Edwin  Anderson  Alderman 


April    13,    1905 


Prepared   by 
SALLIE  J.    DOSWELL 
JOHN  S.    PATTON 


Edwin    Anderson    Alderman. 


l-Ldwin  Anderson  Akk-rnian  was  born  in  Wilmington.  X.  C,  May 
15,  1861.  He  was  prepared  for  college  at  Bethel  Military  Academy, 
Virginia,  and  was  graduated  from  the  University  of  North  Carolina, 
at  Chapel  Hill,  in  1882.  On  leaving  college  he  immediately  entered 
upon  his  chosen  work  of  teaching.  His  career  in  that  ])rofession  has 
been  one  of  constant  and  rajjid  advancement.  In  iSSj  be  was  made 
Superintendent  of  Cilv  Schools.  ( ioldsboro.  X.  C. ;  in   iSSO.   President 


EDWIN    ANDKRSON    Al.DKKM  A  X.  3 

of  the  North  C'nroHna  Teachers'  Asscnilily ;  in  i<SX().  State  Institute 
Conductor  of  North  C'arohna;  in  1S9J,  I'rofcssor  of  llistdry  in  the 
State  Normal  and  huhislrial  College,  at  tireensl)oro,  N.  C. ;  in  1H93, 
I'rofcssor  of  the  llistor\  and  Philosophy  of  Education  in  his  (iliiui 
iiuitcr,  the  Cnixersity  of  Xorth  Carolina.  In  i8(/).  fourteen  years 
after  his  graduation,  he  was  unanimously  chosen  President  of  the 
University  of  Xorth  C'arolina.  and  administered  its  affairs  with  signal 
success  for  four  years.  There  was  a  steady  and  remarkable  increase 
in  the  numher  of  stmlents,  in  the  amount  of  income,  in  the  inimber  of 
new  huildings.  and  in  jjopular  a])preciation  of  the  work  and  worth  of 
the  University.  His  adnunistration  was  marked  also  hy  unity  of  pur- 
pose among  l-'acully  and  students,  and  hy  an  unllinching  faith  in  his 
ability  to  lead  to  higher  things. 

In  April.  1900,  he  was  called  to  the  presidency  of  Tulane  Univer- 
sity, of  Louisiana,  made  vacant  by  the  death  of  Colonel  William 
Preston  Johnston.  His  administration  of  this  office  was  in  the  highest 
degree  successful.  The  curriculum  was  revised  and  liberalized;  the 
scattered  life  of  the  institution  was  unified:  the  b'aeulty  w-as  notably 
strengthened:  the  resources  of  the  University  were  augmented;  a 
beautiful  library  building  was  erected;  there  was  an  awakening  along 
all  lines  of  college  life;  and  the  cause  of  higher  education  was,  as 
never  before,  brought  to  the  minds  and  hearts  of  the  people. 

In  1896,  the  University  of  the  South,  at  Sewanec,  Tenn.,  con- 
ferred upon  President  Alderman  the  degree  of  D.  C.  L.  In  1899, 
Tulane  University  conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of  LL.  D..  this  honor 
being  repeated  by  Johns  Hopkins  University  in  1902. 

President  Alderman  is  an  Imnorarv  member  of  manv  learned 
societies,  and  is  especially  i)rominent  in  the  National  Educational 
Association,  having  been  a  \'ice-President  of  the  Association  for 
1903-04.  He  is  the  author  of  "A  Brief  History  of  North  Carolina,'" 
and  many  educational  pamphlets  and  addresses.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Southern  Education  P.oard  and  director  of  its  affairs  for  the 
Southwest.  His  reputation  as  an  orator  before  cultured  assemblages 
is  national,  and  his  felicitous  addresses  in  New  York,  Chicago,  Balti- 
more, and  Boston  have  been  notable  features  of  notable  occasions. 

He  carries  to  his  work  (at  the  University  of  Virginia)  a  personal 
magnetism,  an  innate  leadership,  a  dedication  to  cultured  service,  an 
adaptability  to  new  conditions,  a  hospitality  to  large  ideas,  an  under- 
standing of  educational  needs  and  processes,  a  sympathy  with  all  high 
enthusiasms,  a  disdain  of  sordidness  and  inefficiency,  a  passion  for 
democratic  ideals,  a  swiftness  and  sureness  in  interpreting  popular 
movements,  and  withal  a  vividness  and  distinction  of  speech  not  sur- 
passed by  any  college  ])resi(lent  in  America.* 

*Ur.  C.  A.  Smitli. 


Election  ot    President  Alderman,  And  His 
Reception  at  the  University 

Dr.  lulwin  Aiuk-rson  Aldcnnan  was  (.■Ircled  President  of  the 
I'nivcrsity  of  X'irginia  by  the  Board  of  Visitors  on  June  14,  1904, 
and  his  acceptance  of  this  office  was  convex  cd  in  the  following  letter: 

HuTEI.   X'UTORIA,    XeW    \'oKK.   julv   7.    1 904 

Hon.  CInirlcs  P.  Jones.  Charlottesville.  I'a. 

My  De\r  Mr.  Jones:— On  Ttiesday.  June  i4ih,  I  had  the  honor 
to  receive  your  lele,!.;rani  announcinc:  niy  election  as  President  of  the 
University  of  \'ir<4ini;i.  ( )u  \ester(hiy  I  sent  you  by  telegram  my 
formal  acceptance  of  that  j^reat  honor  and  trust.  It  seems  to  me  proper 
that  I  should  more  formally,  and  hy  letter,  acqtiaint  you  of  my  de- 
cision. 

I  have  spent  the  three  weeks  intervening  between  the  action  of 
the  Board  of  \'isitors  and  my  decision  in  an  earnest  elTorl  to  discover 
the  right  thing  to  do  in  this  great  matter. 

.\s  you  well  know.  I  did  not  seek  this  high  office  and  this  great 
responsibility,  for  my  mind  and  my  heart  were  full  of  the  prol)lenis  of 
the  Tulane  University  of  Louisiana. —  an  iu-^titution  de:ir  to  me  and 
full  of  power  for  the  future  in  our  national  life.  It  has  cost  me  much 
suffering  to  sever  my  relations  with  that  University  and  with  the 
broad-minded  and  generous-hearted  people  who  sustain  it.  but  I  have 
come  to  you  because  the  call  seemed  to  me  a  clear  call  <if  duiv  and 
responsibility,  which  I  could  not  put  aside. 

This  is  no  moment  of  mere  protestation.  T  shall  give  to  the 
University  of  \'irginia  whatever  strength  1  h;ive  of  mind  or  body 
or  si)irit.  I  shall  study  its  past  with  reverence,  and  1  shall  seek  to 
build  about  it  for  the  future  in  the  spirit  of  a  man  who  has  something 
very  precious  entrusted  to  his  keeping. 

Of  my  own  self  I  can  do  very  little,  and  th;it  little  ill.  but  if  the 
strength  of  every  man  and  woman  who  loves  the  University  and 
understands  its  meaning  to  American  life  may  be  relied  upon,  then, 
indeed,  a  great  work  may  be  done. 


0  INSTALLATION    OF  THE  FIRST   PRESIDENT 

I  shall  niako  many  mistakes,  without  douht.  The  only  college 
president  who  avoids  mistakes  is  the  one  who  cunningly  does  nothing. 

1  shall,  however,  believe  that  the  Board  of  \'isitors  and  the  people  of 
A'irginia.  to  whom  the  University  belongs,  will  have  patience  with  me 
if  my  purpose  be  clear  to  do  what  I  can.     Faithfully  yours, 

Edwin  A.  Alderman. 

On  the  evening  of  September  15,  1904,  the  President  was  wel- 
comed to  his  office  by  a  large  gathering  in  the  Public  Hall  of  the 
University.  The  Hon.  Charles  Pinckney  Jones,  of  Monterey,  Rector 
of  the  Board  of  Visitors,  presided,  and  made  an  address  of  notification, 
in  the  course  of  which  he  told  of  the  sentiment  which  had  resulted  in 
the  enactment  by  the  Legislature  of  a  law  providing  for  a  president, 
and  referred  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  public  in  the  Board's  choice  of 
an  executive.  The  Rector  pledged  to  the  President  the  support  and 
co-operation  of  the  \'isitors,  the  alumni  and  the  student  bodv. 

Address  of  Welcome  to  the  First  President. 

Dr.  James  Morris  Page,  the  last  of  the  Chairmen  of  the  Faculty, 
on  laying  down  the  office  which  he  had  administered  with  consi)icuous 
ability,  said : 

"  The  simple  ceremonies  in  which  we  are  participating  tonight  are 
intended  to  contribute  towards  marking  an  event  in  the  life  of  the 
University  of  Virginia  second  in  importance  onlv  to  the  conception 
and  birth  of  the  institution  ;  I  refer,  of  course,  to  the  inccpti(~in  of  a 
new  form  of  government. 

"  I  need  hardly  remind  you  that,  in  the  beginning,  the  executive, 
and  a  part  of  the  legislative,  authority  and  responsibility  were  vested 
in  the  Faculty  and  the  Chairman  of  the  Faculty.  This  form  of  gov- 
ernment, introduced  by  the  Father  of  the  institution,  was  at  first  a 
l)ure  democracy,  for  the  Chairman,  the  chief  executive  officer,  was  a 
member  of  the  b'aculty,  and  was  elected  annually  by  his  colleagues. 
P)Ut  the  chairmanship  soon  ])roved  to  be  an  ofiice  to  be  sedulously 
avoided  bv  any  professor,  on  account  of  onerous  duties  and  responsi- 
bilities which  became  more  burdensome  \-c'ar  bv  vear,  so  that  in  |S_>8, 
wlien  the  Universil\-  was  three  vein's  old.  the  X'isitors  had  to  take  the 
matter  in  hand  and  ;i])point  a  Chairman  in  order  to  ensure  the  office 
being  filled.  This  was  the  first  departure  from  Jefferson's  purely 
democratic  form  of  government:  and  from  |8_'S  u])  to  the  ])resent  the 
\'isitors  have  continued  to  a|)])oint  the  executive.  I  nia\-  mention,  .as 
a  matter  of  interest,  that  there  have  ])een  seventeen  incuml)ents  of  the 
chairmanshi]).  several  of  whom  served  more  than  one  term,  while  the 
average  length  of  the  term  (jf  service  was  .about  \'\\v  years. 


'■  On  several  occa^iuiis  the  Xisiiors  (.-onNidcrril  tla-  ail\  i>aliiliiy  (if 
electing  a  i)resi(leiil  :  ..nee  dnrin-  Mr.  jel'terson's  liletinu':  aj^ain 
immediately  after  the  ('i\il  War;  a.^ain  jnst  after  onr  threat  lire:  and, 
finally,  ahont  twn  years  ai^o.  (  )n  the  three  former  oeeasion-,  the 
weight  and  authority  of  Mr.  Jefferson's  expressed  wishes  upon  the 
suhjcct  seem  to  have  prevented  the  Visitors  from  taking  a  step  which, 
to  many  of  the  warnie>t  and  wisest  friends  of  the  institution,  appeared 
desiral)le.  Hut  recently,  .after  renewed  careful  consider.ation  of  the 
matter,  the  \'isitors  decide<l  that  the  time  had  come  to  create  .and  lill 
the  oHice. 

■■  In  m.any  (juarters  the  mistaken  oi)inion  has  prevailed  that  this 
stej)  was  t.iken  hy  the  \isitors  contrary  to  the  desire  of  the  Faculty. 
I'.ut  it  is  a  historical  fact,  vouched  for  hy  the  records  on  the  Faculty 
minute  hook,  that  in  ( )ctoher,  1902,  when  the  recent  discussion  with 
regard  to  the  creation  of  the  office  of  President  h.ad  just  he.mm.  the 
Faculty  adopted  hy  ;in  overwhelming-  m.-ijority  a  resolution  recom- 
mending to  the  \isitors  the  creation  of  that  ottice.  I  mention  this 
fact  in  order  to  correct  the  erroneous  opinion  that  the  Faculty  opposed 
the  appointment  of  a  president.  The  Faculty  had  long  groaned  under 
the  difficulties  and  vexations  which  necessarily  followed  from  referring 
to  their  whole  hody  little  business  details,  which  elsewhere  were  expe- 
ditiously and  .satisfactorily  disposed  of  l)y  one  man. 

I'hat  also  is  a  mistaken  opinion,  which  seems  to  have  been  held 
by  some,  that  the  Faculty  were  moved  to  reconnuend  to  the  X'isitors 
the  creation  of  the  office  of  President  on  account  of  some  alarming 
decadent  or  atrophied  condition  which  had  declared  itself  in  the  I'ni- 
versity  of  late  years.  On  the  contrary,  the  opinion  of  the  Faculty.— 
and,  I  suppose,  to  some  extent,  that  of  the  Visitors,—  that  this  Univer- 
sity needs  a  president,  was  based  in  large  measure  upon  the  fact  that 
the  adnn'm'strativc  affairs  of  the  institution  have  so  grown,  both  in 
scope  and  in  complexity,  within  the  last  decade  and  a  h.alf.  th.at  a  l"orm 
of  government  practicable  when  the  institution  was  younger,  had 
proved  too  cumbersome  to  meet  the  altered  conditions.  .\s  I  have 
said,  we  do  not  consi.ler  th.at  this  University  has  been  ;i  victim  of 
•arrested  development  ':  for.  a>  .a  matter  of  I'act.  the  number  of  .stu- 
dents matriculated  has  more  than  doubled  within  the  last  fifteen  years. 
—  a  record  which  compares  favorably.  I  f;inc\.  with  that  of  any 
institution  of  about  the  .same  age  and  doing  the  same  grade  of  work  ; 
moreover,  the  financial  condition  of  the  I'niversity  has  been  steadily 
improving,  and  is  better  today  than  ever  before:  and.  finally,  with  all 
reverence  for  our  predecessors  and  their  achievements.  T  do  not  hesi- 
tate to  say  that  just  as  good  work  h.as  been  done  here  of  late  by 
professors  and  students  as  in  the  •  de.ar  old  days.'  while  the  number 
of  courses  offered  has  been  constantlv  increasiu"-. 


8  IXSTALLATIOX   OF  THE   FIRST   PRESIDENT 

"  I  am  not  willing  for  you  to  imagine  that  our  President  comes  to 
a  university,  the  Faculty  of  which  opposed  the  creation  of  his  oftice, 
or  to  one  in  a  moribund  or  retrogressive  condition. 

"  The  hour  has  now  arrived  when  the  office  of  Chairman  of  the 
Faculty  ceases  to  exist.  Even  tonight  it  is  not  as  Chairman  that  I 
appear  before  you.  I  consider  myself  highly  honored  that  my  col- 
leagues of  the  Faculty  have  requested  me  to  act  on  this  occasion  as 
their  spokesman,  and  to  voice  to  the  best  of  my  poor  ability  their 
sentiments  of  warm  and  hearty  welcome  to  our  President. 

"  It  is  not  too  much  to  say,  sir,  that  our  lives  —  the  lives  of  the 
members  of  this  Faculty  —  are  bound  up  in  the  life  of  this  University ; 
that  we  are  glad  and  proud  to  give  to  her.  '  as  it  is  also  our  bounden 
duty  to  do,'  the  utmost  that  we  possess  of  strength  or  skill.  Although 
the  University,  regarded  as  a  piece  of  property,  belongs  to  the  whole 
State ;  and  although  the  alumni,  almost  to  a  man,  feel  that,  in  a  sense, 
the  University  belongs  to  them, —  after  all  her  interests  are  idcntiftcd 
with  our  interests,  and  to  safeguard  her  welfare  and  cherish  her  pres- 
tige must  ever  be  the  object  of  our  most  concentrated  and  consecrated 
endeavor. 

"  And  now,  sir,  it  only  remains  for  me  to  deliver  formally  into 
your  hands  the  administrative  duties  heretofore  entrusted  to  the 
Faculty  and  Chairman,  and  to  add  the  most  earnest  assurance,  on  the 
part  of  each  member  of  the  Faculty,  that  we  receive  you  here  as  our 
President  with  every  feeling  of  satisfaction  and  welcome.  \\'e  beg 
also,  individually  and  collectively,  to  assure  you  of  our  heartiest 
co-operation  in  all  that  you  may  undertake  for  the  good  of  our  beloved 
University,  confident  that  under  your  wise  and  sympathetic  leadership 
each  future  year  will  contribute  to  her  glorious  past,  ever  more  and 
more,  of  influence  and  usefulness  and  renown." 

ADDRESS  OF  ACCEPTANCE. 

BY   THE   PRESIDENT. 

Mr.   Rector,   (iriil/riiicii   of  fhc   Board  of   J'isitor.s-  and  the  !-acitltics, 
Students  of  the  University: 
I  have  heard  with  interest  and  with  profound  encouragement  the 
words  of  welcome,  of  co-operation,  and  of  counsel  which  ha\c  been 


spoken  to  me  today. 

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all  weigh  and  heed  them 

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you  after  patient  thouj^lit.  with  an  lionest  ijnrjxise  and  a  lar.i;e  desiiX' 
for  usefulness,  nnnioved,  1  heliexe,  l)y  small  anihitions.  nnfretted  Iiy 
ill-will  to  any  soul,  and  uninilueneed  by  any  sort  of  fear  or  favor. 

My  eyes  behold  the  difficulties,  my  self-knowledge  informs  me  of 
a  thousand  shortcnniint,'s,  my  heart  teaches  me  all  the  solemn  meaning 
of  this  htnir,  and  yet  1  undertake  the  task  with  something  of  that  pride 
of  tiiil  and  hope  of  achievement  that  warms  the  heart  of  the  healthy 
man  who  i^oes  forth  imder  the  clear  sun  to  do  the  day's  work  honestly. 
I  feel  about  me  the  strength  of  the  faculties  of  this  University,  whose 
message  delivered  by  their  .able  rei)resentative  I  profoundly  appreciate 
—  a  group  of  able,  large-minded,  unselfish  men.  who  have  lived  the 
life  of  devotion  to  a  cause.  The  mo.st  impressive  thing  to  me  aboiU 
this  University,  or  any  university,  is  not  its  physical  setting  or  its 
bodv  of  traditions,  or  its  so-called  spirit,  but  the  unbroken  stream  of 
human  devotion  and  love  and  service  which  generations  of  men  have 
poured  into  it  —  from  the  great  founder  whose  fading  life  it  glorified 
and  strengthened,  to  our  colleagues  and  friends  of  today,  wdiose  hair 
has  whitened  in  its  service,  but  whose  hearts  have  the  deathless  youth 
that  comes  to  those  who  serve  the  young.  Our  virile  democracy,  with 
its  peril  of  vulgar  strength,  has'  been  refined  and  ennobled  by  the 
example  of  such  men  and  by  the  spectacle  of  such  institutions  living 
on  forever  and  never  lacking  such  service.  I  come  to  you  as  the 
executive  head  of  this  University. 

This  office  in  America,  and  peculiarly  here,  is  a  new  creation  of 
modern  needs  and  almost  insuperably  difficult  to  fill.  There  is  a  five- 
fold relation  which  a  president  must  l)ear  to  boards  and  faculties,  to 
students  an.d  society  and  scholarshij).  that  makes  demand  upon  his 
sympathy  and  his  wisdom  so  widely  variant  as  to  render  it  imi)Ossible 
for  him  to  act  without  error  and  without  frecpient  criticism  and  charge 
of  duplicitv.  It  is  commonly  alleged  against  college  presidents,  for 
instance,  that  they  are  liars.  I  hope  it  is  not  wholly  immodest  in  me 
to  say  this  is  a  tolerably  hasty  generalization,  like  the  famous  one  oi 
the  Psalmist's.  A  president  can  only  avoid  mistakes  by  cunningly 
doing  nothing.  If  an  institution  would  escape  the  stagnation,  there- 
fore, of  a  do-nothing  president  (iin  pr'csidcnt  faineant)  it  must  be 
willing  to  have  patience  with  his  errors.  His  chair,  commonly  thought 
of  as  the  most  staple  piece  of  academic  furniture,  has  been  somewhere 
described  as  the  "  rocking-chair  "  and  at  times  the  '"  joggling  board." 

The  conception  of  a  president  as  an  autocrat  on  the  bridge  is  an 
error.  He  needs  power  and  trust  and  confidence  and  liberty  to  carry 
out  well-conceived  plans.  There  is  no  place,  however,  for  an  autocrat 
in  American  education.  Between  the  president  and  faculty  a  loyal, 
hearty,  helpful  relation  should  exist.     If  he  depends  on  himself  alone 


10  INSTALLATION   OF  THE   FIRST    PRESIDENT 

he  will  do  but  little,  and  that  little  not  verv  well.  His  o])ini()ns  must 
gain  their  weight  from  their  wisdom  rather  than  from  their  source. 
His  truest  strength  lies  in  the  power  to  divine  the  value  of  others 
rather  than  in  any  power  of  his  own  of  action  or  of  speech.  For  him 
there  must  be  the  open  mind,  the  sympathetic  spirit,  the  patient  temi)er, 
the  sleepless  eye;  and  his  power  should  be  commensurate  with  his 
responsibility. 

I  am  conscious  of  the  support  and  counsel  of  the  Board  of  Visitors 
—  eminent  men  of  civic  virtue  and  public  spirit,  who  administer  a 
noble  trust  without  hope  of  gain  to  themselves  save  such  large  gain 
as  comes  to  men  who  serve  society  in  upbuilding  ways. 

I  see  before  me  the  bright  and  ever-widening  circle  of  alumni 
who  have  been  made  strong  by  alma  mater.  The  alumni  of  this 
institution  are  the  fruits  of  the  tree.  If  it  has  any  strength  they  are 
that  strength.  If  it  hopes  for  any  power,  these  hopes  centre  in  that 
circle.  I  see  them  grown  strong  and  rich  in  city  and  country.  I  see 
them  endowed  with  the  wisdom  of  age  and  experience  and  strong  with 
the  strength  of  youth  and  hope.  They  shall  be  given  a  chance  and 
put  to  the  test  for  the  sake  of  their  spiritual  mother. 

Young  gentlemen  of  the  University,  I  thank  you  for  your  winning 
courtesy  to  me,  and  I  believe  that  we  shall  be  friends.  I  praise  your 
admirable  self-discipline  and  the  spirit  of  manliness  and  candor  that 
I  am  informed  animates  your  life  here.  The  most  interesting  thing 
in  our  national  life  to  me  is  the  American  college  bov.  I  have  known 
him  among  the  foothills  of  Carolina,  by  the  banks  of  the  Mississippi, 
and  now  shall  know  him  among  the  Virginia  hills.  I  have  dealt  with 
him  from  all  the  States.  I  think  of  him  as  a  member  of  a  race  rather 
than  of  an  institution.  I  shall  wish  to  be  a  jjart  of  your  lives — from 
your  ideals  to  your  sjjorts,  from  your  scholarly  enthusiasms  to  your 
victorious  shoutings.  I  shall  wish  to  deal  with  you.  as  I  mav  ha\e 
wisdom,  with  sincerity  and  courtesy.  The  University  exists  for  you. 
in  the  belief  that  here  you  may  gain  the  jjower  and  the  desire  to 
strengthen  yourself  and  to  serve  society,  ^'our  contribution  to  Uni- 
versity ])ower  and  reputation  in  undergraduate  days  is  in  abstinence 
from  shiftlessness.  self-indulgence,  and  disorder.  Your  gratitude  lo 
it  and  h)\v  for  it  when  youth  has  cf)oled  will  come  through  a  knowledge 
that  such  abstinence  enabled  you  to  gain  the  scholarly  eniciency  neces- 
sary lo  power  in  a  deniocralic  life.  'I'lie  .South  has  something,  believe 
me,  ])recious  and  (listincti\e  in  manhood  and  character  lo  contrihule 
to  American  life.  It  siiall  be  a  suhtle  blend  of  the  old  spirit  which 
did  not  know  how  to  com])roniis(,'  and  did  know  how  to  die  for  a  faith, 
and  llu-  new  s])irit  which  looks  ;it  life  with  wide,  clear,  ^leads'  eves, 
and   which   has  been   beaten   1)\-    freer  civic    I'orces   into   liner  and  more 


Ol-     Till-:    rNI\KKSITV    Ol"    VlUt.lMA.  II 

efficient  form.  In  ihc  surot  jnsticc  of  (  iod,  yon,  and  tliosc  like  _\i)U, 
in  onr  >i>UT  collei^o,  ^liall  lieconie  of  this  nionlil.  and  it  is  for  you  to 
help  n>  to  make  of  this  nohle  foundation  tlie  place  of  central  importance 
in  the  historic  out-\vorkin<;  of  this  new  tyi)e  of  pergonal  culture  and 
social  et'ticiency. 

A  thousand  schemes  for  social  amelioration  are  afoot  in  the  South, 
raui^in^  from  suffrage  questions  to  the  estahlishment  of  libraries.  Let 
us  make  no  i).itch\vork  job  of  it.  .\  new  kind  of  social  spirit  and  social 
knowledi^e  are  needed  to  i^nidc  these  movements.  The  South  has 
become  self -con>cious  and  tolerant  of  criticism.  It  perceives  society 
as  an  organism  to  be  understood  and  lanj^ht  the  laws  of  growth. 

.\nd  lastly.  I  feel  about  us  the  strength  and  sustenance  of  the 
Connnonwealth  of  \  irginia.  and  the  co-ojjeration  and  resi)cct  of  insti- 
tutions which,  like  us.  are  working  to  m.ake  men.  I  have  come  to 
make  my  home  in  X'irginia  and  to  sjiend  my  life  here.  One  may  do 
that  with  calm  pride  and  contidence,  for  the  past  of  X'irginia  stan.ds 
clear  and  steadfast,  and  the  present  is  an  earnest  and  hojiefnl  time. 
The  day  of  large  things  has  come  into  our  national  and  state  life.  It 
was  a  stunting  inheritance  from  days  of  trial  and  poverty  that  made 
us  try  in  former  days  to  achieve  large  ends  with  small  means.  This 
L'niversity  is  the  supreme  intellectual  achievement  of  this  Connnon- 
wealth. It  has  contributed  to  its  ])rogress.  unity,  patriotism,  right- 
eousness, and  culture.  It  should  be.  and  it  will  be.  the  highest 
satisfaction  of  the  State  to  understand  it,  to  sym])athize  with  and  to 
strengthen  it,  not  as  if  it  doled  out  charity,  but  as  one  increases  his 
noblest  iuNesiuKnt.  This  is  not  the  State  that  once  lay  beaten  with 
the  stripes  of  war  and  misrule.  Wealth  and  power  are  here,  and  our 
great  need  as  a  people  is  to  invest  in  education,  not  to  scrimp  and  save. 

This  is  not  the  time  or  place  to  outline  any  policy  as  the  executive 
of  this  institution.  My  first  duty  is  to  study  reverently  and  to  know 
in  my  nerves  and  in  my  heart,  as  well  as  in  my  mind,  the  life  of  this 
organism  which  began  its  life  here  so  grandly  when  the  last  century 
was  young,  wdiich  has  had  for  leaders  and  ser\  ants  the  best  blood  and 
brains  of  the  land,  and  which  has  received  into  its  body  and  given 
out  so  splendid  a  line  of  American  citizenship.  rbi>  1  shall  do  with 
the  helj)  of  my  colleagues,  and  then  1  shall  count  myself  hap])y  if  I 
may  become  one  of  the  splendid  com]iany  of  tho>e  who  have  served 
the  L'ni\ersity  of  \'irginia  faithfully  in  the  continuity  of  its  useful  life. 

This  world  will  surely  be  commanded  by  those  races  and  com- 
munities which  l)ring  to  their  work  the  resources  of  education  i)lus 
native  energy  and  capacity.  Iniversities.  therefore,  are  at  the  heart 
of  the  movment  for  control  in  the  leadership  of  the  world.  This 
Southern  land,  for  the  rei)ublic's  sake,  needs  a  great,  majestic,  powerful 


12  INSTALLATION    OF   THE   FIRST   PRESIDENT 

university  —  above  all  want  and  littleness  —  out  of  which  should  come 
the  industrial  power  and  patriotic  scholarly-mindedness  which  our  life 
demands.  Democracy  unsteadied  by  such  forces  is  a  generous  fantasy. 
The  great  region  south  of  the  Potomac  has  not  its  share  of  such  power. 
and  its  lack  of  it  is  impairing  the  homogeneity  of  the  nation.  The 
great  movement  of  individual  beneficence  has  all  but  passed  us  by. 
This  is  the  spot  for  such  a  University  and  the  building  of  such  a  great 
institution  here  would  mean  more  to  our  social  structure  than  any 
event  since  the  passing  of  slavery. 

This  University  does  not  belong  to  the  Board  or  to  the  Faculty 
or  to  the  President.  It  belongs  to  the  people  of  this  State  and  nation, 
high  and  low,  rich  and  poor.  It  is  not  a  caste,  a  fraternity,  or  a 
brotherhood,  but  an  agent  of  society  as  completely  public  as  the  State 
Capitol.  The  gifts  of  founders  and  donors  pass  from  them  to  the 
people  as  completely  as  a  thrown  stone  leaves  the  thrower's  hand. 
Its  glory  is  service  to  society.  Its  strength  is  sustenance  by  society. 
We  who  administer,  govern,  and  teach  are  the  servants  of  the  people. 
The  University,  therefore,  can  not  be  a  dreamer  or  a  seer,  but  must 
use  common  sense  as  men  do  in  business,  and  be  a  social,  regenerative 
force,  reaching  out  into  every  hamlet  and  touching  hopefully  every 
citizen,  so  that  the  home,  the  village,  the  field,  the  shop,  may  see  the 
University  for  what  it  is  —  an  intellectual  lighthouse,  not  alone  for 
the  few  who  trim  its  wicks  and  fill  its  lamps,  but  for  all  the  unchartered 
craft  adrift  upon  the  sea. 

Those  who  build  universities  must  Iniild  them  through  the  e.xercise 
of  patience  and  energy  and  enthusiasm  and  industry  and  faith,  and 
that  large  idealism  which,  through  any  murk,  can  still  dream  dreams 
and  see  visions.  There  is  much  acquaintance  with  hope  deferred  that 
maketh  the  heart  sick.  There  are  many  grim  and  haggard  davs.  and 
many  nights  of  starless  skies,  but  there  is  also  the  joy  of  constant 
association  with  vital  and  picturesque  youth.  There  is  the  uplift  of 
thought  tliat  comes  of  alliance  with  a  large  truth  and  a  just  cause. 
There  is  the  knowledge  that  though  we  fail  or  fall,  the  cause  will  go 
marching  <m.  and  our  souls  will  go  marching  on  with  it.  having 
l)elieve(l  in  it  and  given  it  service.  There  is  the  faith  in  the  final 
rectitude  of  public  impulse  and  the  splendid  ultimate  victory. 

You  have  summoned  me,  not  to  mark  time,  but  to  go  t'orward.  1 
shall  do  what  I  can.  Let  all  who  love  the  University,  or  the  republic 
which  it  serves,  work  for  the  fulfilment  of  its  high  mission. 


The    Installation 


Tlie  acadiMiiic  ])n)ccs>i()n  fnniud  on  The  l.awn  in  the  following 
order : 

STUDENTS, 

under  Chief  Marshal  Ira  Branch  Johnson,  grouped  in  classes  under 
class  marshals:  Academic,  W.  W.  Coxe;  Medical,  O.  B.  Patton ;  Law, 
W.  O.  Spates ;  Engineering.  F.  O.  Richey. 

Tile  liody  thus  formed  moved  down  the  centre  of  The  Lawn,  in 
twos,  dividing  into  right  and  left  columns  at  the  Monroe  statue,  fol- 
lowed by  the  remainder  of  the  procession  in  nine  divisions  in  the  order 
following,  headed  by  the  Herald.  Mr.  John  .\shby  Williams: — 

/•7A'.V7-   DIl-JSJOX. 

XA'i'lOXAL  AND  STAT!-.  Ol'I'ICI ALS. 

Marshals — Mk.  IU-kriki),  Mr.  Xki.sox. 

James      Keith— President     Supreme  F.   B.   ]\utvm--Jitd.tic  Circuit  Court. 

Court  of  Appeals  of  Virginia.  Abingdon. 

George     M.     Harrison— /Ht/g^'     Su-  John   W.    Fr\ci:— Judge   Cort^oration 

prenie   Court   of  Appeals   of   Vir-  Court,  Bristol. 

gii'ia.  Jnlm  W.  W'nnch— Judge  Corporation 

William      A.       Anderson — Attorney  Court,  h'oanoke. 

General  of  Virginia.  T.     R.     P.,     Wright— /j((/.!,'r     Circuit 

L.    O.    Murray — Assistant   .S'ccretary  Court.  Tappahannock. 

U.    S.    Department    of    Commerce  William    A.    Y^o\\\ci^— Virginia  State 

and  Labor.  Board  of  Education. 

Herbert  PuUvdm—Librarian  of  Con-  K.    C.    Glass— r;Vj?n(/(,   State   Board 

gress.  of  Education. 

John     P.     Kcnnecl\ — Librarian     Vir-  Jnhn  T.  \Ve?.t— Virginia  Stale  Board 

ginia  State  Library.  of  Education. 

Joseph  W.   Southall— /'n7,'/;//o  State  ¥.      P.      Timm— Secretary     Virginia 

Superintendent  of  Public  Schools.  State  Board  of  Education. 

J.  C.  Boyd— Medical  Director  U.  S.  R.   K.   Campbell— C/.   .S".   Department 

Xary.  of  Cojiimerce  and  Labor. 
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14  INSTALLATION   OF  THE   FIRST   PRESIDENT 

John     C.     Wise — Medical     Director  James     B.     Doherty — Coiiiiiiissioiicr 

U.  S.  Xcwy.  J'iri^iiiia    State    Bureau    of    Labor 

Jefferson   Randolph    Kean — Surgeon  and  Industry. 

U.  S.  Army.  G.  W.  Koiner — J'irginia  State  Coin- 

C.  H.  Sinclair — U.  S.  Coast  Survey.  missioner  of  Agriculture. 

A.     M.     Aiken — Judge     Corporation  William  B.   Alwood — U.  S.  Depart- 

Court  of  Danville.  )nent  of  Agriculture. 

Thomas    W.    Harrison — Judge    Cir-  G.  W^  Olivier — Mayor  of  Cliarlottcs- 

cuit  Court.   JJ'inchcster.  I'ille. 

SECOXD  Dill  SI  OX. 

NATIONAL   AND    STATE   LEGISLATORS. 

Marshals — Mr.  Grant,  Mr.  Vixev. 

James  Hay — U.  S.  House  of  Repre-  George    S.    Shackelford — State   Sen- 

sentativcs.  ator. 

Claude  A.  Swanson — U.  S.  House  of  Ernest    A.    Gray — House    of    Dele- 

Representatives.  gates. 

John  F.  Ryan — Speaker  of  the  J'ir-  William  E.  Howie — House  of  Dele- 

ginia  House  of  Delegates.  gates. 

J.   Lawrence   Camphell — State  Sena-  Eugene   Ould — House   of  Delegates. 

tor.  James    B.    Pannill — House    of   Dele- 

John   S.   Chapman — State  .Senator.  gates. 

E.   F.   Cromwell — .S"/(7/t'  Senator.  D.    A.    Slaughter — House    of    Dele- 

M.  J.  Fulton — State  Senator.  gates. 

Lewis  H.  Machen — State  Senator.  E.    B.   Thomasson — House   of  Dele- 

William   Hodges   ]\L-inn — .State  Sen-  gates. 

ator.  W.    A.    WUleroy—JIouse    of    Dele- 
John    F.    Rixey — U.    S.    House    of  gates. 

Rcprcscntatizrs.  Robert  W.  \\"nhcv<^— House  of  Dele- 
gates. 

THIRD  DiriSIOX. 

CITY  AND  COUNTY  SUPERINTENDENTS  OF  SCHOOLS 
IN  VIRGINIA. 

Marshals — Mr.  Rorerts,  ]Mr.  Tjmueklake. 

Jamca  yi.BL'cklvdm.Culpcpcr  County.  George     H.      Hulvey,     Rockingliain 

N.   B.   Campbell,  Goocliland  County.         County. 

R.  A.  Dobie,  Norfolk  City.  George   1!.  JtMinings.  (ireene  County. 

William  F.  Fox,  Richmond  City.  .M.  M,  Lynch,  Winchester. 

Henry  Maclin,  Mecklenburg  County.  1).  L.  Pulliam,  Manchester. 

W.  C.  Marshall,  Fauquier  County.  V.  II.  Smith.  Staunton. 

O.  B.  Mears,  Northampton  County.  L.      M.      Smith.      Jr..     Spottsylrania 

E.  O.  Peale,  Augusta  County.  County. 


OF   Tilt;    1'.NI\KKS1TV    oi'    \' I  U(  ;i  N  I  A.  I5 

i-ovRi  II  nir IS/OX. 

TEAClll-.KS    l.\    rLl'.lJC   AXl)    rUIVATl-:  SCHOOLS. 
Marshals — Mk.  T.wuik,  .Mk.  Wavland. 

W.  \<.  Ahhn.  I^clh-viu-  Hii^h  School.  [■'.    P.    llnl.on,,<l,    Oxford   Srniinary. 

Ju-Ucriu:  Oxfonl.  \.  C. 

Miss   L.   A.    I'.an.us.   Xalional  Lathe-  William    .M.    Kniipi-r,    /)'.■//;>•/   .1////- 

dral  School,  irashiiii^ton,  I).  C.  lory  .hadciiiy.  lU-thcl. 

L.     M.     lllackford.    l-.piscotal    Hiiih  Jdlm     P.     McCuirc,    Jr.,     McCuirc's 

School.  Alexandria.  Vnivcrsity  School.  Richmond. 

W.    W.    I'rii-gs.    Locust   Pale   .lead-  Roliert       L.       PrcstDii.       University 

any.  Locust  Dale.  School.  Washington,  D.  C. 

Rev.  James  Cannon,  Jr.,  Blackstonc  Charles  S.  Roller,  Augusta  Military 

Female  Institute,  Blackstone.  Academy,  Fort  Defiance. 

M.    Estes    Cocke.    Hollins   Institute.  E.    Sumter   Smith,   Randol[<h-Macon 

Hollins.  Academy,  Bedford  City. 

William  H.  Davis.  Randolf^h-Macon  Rev.  H.  W.  Tribble.  Rawlings  Insti- 

Institute,  Danville.  tute.  Charlottesville. 

Miss  M.  P.  Duval,   I'irginia  Female  R.    S.     W^alker.     U'oodherry    Forest 

Institute,  Staunton.  School.  Orange. 

Berkeley     M.      iM.ntaine.     F:piscol^a!  C.    B.    Wallace,    University    School, 

High  School,  Alexandria.  Xashvillc,  Tenn. 

Miss     Mattie     P.     Harris,     I'irginia  .Miss  E.  C  Weimar,  .l/(7;_v  Baldwin 

College,  Roanoke.  Seminary.  Staunton. 

J.    W.    Lane,    Charlottesville    High  Hampden    Wilson,    Cluster    Sf^rings 

School.  Academy,  Black  Walnut. 
Edmund       Harrison,       Hopkinsville 

Female      Institute,      Hopkinsvillc, 

Ky. 

FIFTH  DIUISIOX. 

REPRESENTATIVES     OF     EDUCATIONAL     AND     SCIENTHHC 
SOCIETIES  AND  OF  THE  LEARNED  PROFESSIONS. 

Marshals — Mk.   Kei-.nek.  Mk.   Slmi-sox,  Mr.   Sto.nk.   Mu.   Watteks. 

Dr.  Lyman  Abbott,  Mr,  .Mbert   Shaw. 

Mr.  Shepard  Barclay,  Mr.   Edward  M.  SlK])ard, 

Dr.  R.  A.  Brock,  Mr.  Samuel  Spencer, 

Mr.  Roscoe  C.  E.  Brown,  Mr.  Melville  E.  Stone, 

Mr.  Wallace  Buttrick,  Mr.  John  S.  Wise, 

Mr.  Julian  S.  Carr,  Rev.  George  E.  Booker, 

Dr.  L.  T.  Chamberlain,  Rev.  Timothy  Crowe, 

Dr.  W.  M.  Clark,  Rev.  W.  M.  Forrest. 


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INSTALLATION    OF  THE   FIRST   PRESIDENT 


Air.   .Aldiicure  D.  Conway,  Rev 
Air.  Jefferson  Randolph  Coolidge,       Rev 

,AIr.  L.  A.  Coulter,  Rev 

Air.  J.  Taylor  Elly.son.  Rev 

Dr.  E.  R.  L.  Gould,  Rev 

Dr.   William  R.   Huntington,  Rev 

Dr.  Percy  Stickney  Grant,  Rev 

Mr.  James  H.  Lindsay,  Rev 

Mr.  Samuel  McCune  Lindsay,  Rev, 

Dr.  Randolph  H.  McKim,  Rev. 

]\Ir.  V.  Everit  Macy,  Rev 

.Air.  William  H.  Maxwell,  Rev, 

l\Ir.  Edgar  Gardner  Murphy,  Rev. 

Mr.  Henry  S.  Pancoast,  Rev. 

Mr.  George  Foster  Peabody,  Rev, 

Air.  Paul  J.  Pelz,  Rev. 

Air.  John  B.  Pine,  Rev, 

Air.  L.  S.  Rowe,  Rev. 

Air.  William  Jay  Schieffelin,  Rev, 


Otis  W.  Glazel)rook, 
Edward  Valentine  Jones, 
John  William  Jones, 
Arthur  B.  Kinsolving, 
W.  W.  Lear, 
Harry  B.  Lee, 
Frederick  W.  Neve, 
James  D.  Paxton, 
G.  L.  Petrie, 
E.  H.  Rowe, 
William  N.  Scott, 
John  W.  Stagg, 
George  Braxton  Taylor, 
Charles  R.  Sine, 
John  B.  Turpin, 
William  C.  White, 
R.  J.  Willing-ham. 
A.  B.  Woodfin, 
Charles  A.  Young. 


SIXTH  DHISJON. 


REPRESENTATIVES  OF  UNIVERSITIES  AND  COLLEGES. 
Marshals — AIr.  Walker.  Dr,  Pollard.  AIr.  Webb.  Dr.  Rogers. 


Harvard  University — 

Prof.  Archibald  C.  Coolidge, 

Prof.  Francis  G.  Peal)ody. 
College  of  William  and  Mary — 

President  Lyon  G.  Tyler, 

Prof.  Charles  E.  Bishop, 

Prof.  Bruce  R.  Payne. 
Yale  University — 

Prof.  H.  W.  Farnam  (Faculty), 

Rev.  J.  \V,  Cooper,  D.  D.  (Cor- 
l^oration). 
i'rincvton  University — 

Prof,  I-:.  O.  Lovett. 
Washington  and  Lee  University — 

President  George  1 1 ,  Denny. 

Prof.  James  W.  Kern. 
University  of  Pennsylvania — 

Dean  J.  H.  Pcnniman. 
Columbia  University — 

Prcs.  Nicholas  Murr:iy  P.utler, 

Dean  James  E.   l^ussell. 


University  of  Vermont — 

Hon.  George  G.  Benedict. 
University  of  Georgia — 

Chancellor  Walter  B.  Hill. 
L^  S.  Military  Academy — 

Lieut.-Col.  Chas.   P.  Echols. 
South  Carolina  College — 

Prof.  Edward  S.  Joynes. 
Columbian   University — 

President  Charles  W.   Needham. 
Theological   Seminary  of  Virginia — 

Prof  Samuel  A.   Wallace,  D.  D.. 

Prof  R.  K,  Alassie, 
Trinity   College — 

C'ol,  R.   W.  Huntington. 
Jefferson   Aiedical   College    - 

Dean  James  W.   Ilollan.l.  M.   D 
rni\ersity   of   Toronto — 

R(,\.  George  Cooper. 
Weskyan    I'niversity — 

I'rof,    Robert    II.    JMfe. 


IK    IXnEUSITV    OK    NIUCINIA. 


17 


Brown   L"nivi.'r>ity — 

Mr.  Henry  K.  Porter, 

Prof.  William   Mac  Donald. 

Mr.  George  P.  Winsliip. 
Dartmouth  College — 

President  \Vm.  J.  Tucker. 
Hampdcn-Sidney  College — 

Prof.  Ilcnry  C.   P>rock. 
Georgetown  I'nivcrsiiy — 

Rev.  Jerome   n<>ugherty. 

Rev.  Henry  .A.  Jud.ne. 
Williams  College — 

President  Henry  Hopkins. 
University  of  Tennessee — 

Prof.  C.  D.  Schmitt. 
University  of  North  Carolina — 

Pres.  Francis  P.  Venable, 

Prof.  C.  Alphonzo  Smith. 
Union  Theological  Seminary — 

Prof.  William  A.  Brown. 
Emory  and  Henry  College — 

Prof.  James  S.  Miller, 

Prof.  John  P.  IMcConnell. 
Virginia  Military  Institute — 

Prof.  Hunter  Pendleton. 
University  of  Indiana — 

President  Wm.  L.  Bryan. 
Queen's  Urffsxrsity — 

Prof.  A.  Melville  Bell. 
University  of  Missouri — 

President  R.  H.  Jesse. 
College  of  the  City  of  New  York- 
Prof.  Charles  Baskerville. 
University  of  Mississippi — 

Chancellor  Robert  B.  Fnlton. 
University  of  Wisconsin^ 

J.  C.  Bloodgood,  M.  D., 

Prof.  Wm.  H.  Hobbs. 
Medical  College  of  Virginia — 

Dr.  George  Ben  Johnston. 
Roanoke  College — 

Prof.  F.  V.  N.  Painter. 
Northwestern  University — 

President  Thomas  F.  Holgate. 
St.  John's  College — 

President  Thomas  Fell. 
Long  Island  College  Hospital — 

Dr.  Joseph  H.  Raymond. 


Randolph-. Macon  College- 
President  R.  E.  Black  well. 
Richmond   College — 

President  1-.  W.  Boatwright, 

Prof.  Samuel  C.  Mitchell, 

Pn.t.  Chas.  11.  Winston. 
Tuhme   rni\ersity — 

I'n.f.  John  K.    1-icklen, 

Ju.lKe  I'dgar  11.   I-arr;ir. 
Davids, in   College- 
President   Henry  L.   Smith. 
University  of  Michigan — 

President  James  B.  Angell. 
Mount  Holyoke  College — 

Miss  Frances  Berkeley. 
Delaware  College — 

Prof.  Edgar  Dawson. 
West  Virginia  University — 

President  D.  B.  Pnrinton. 
Cornell  University — 

Dr.  L.  O.  Howard. 
University  of  Minnesota — 

Dean  John  F.  Downey. 
University  of  the  South — 

Vice-Chancellor  B.  Lawton  Wig- 
gins. 
Ohio   State  University — 

Prof.  R.  D.  Bohannon. 
Alabama  Polytechnic  Institute — 

Prof.  George  Petrie. 
Hampton  Institute — 

President  H.  B.  Frissell. 
Syracuse  University — 

Prof.  Morris  P.  Tilley. 
X'irginia  Polytechnic  Institute — 

Prof.  T.  P.  Campljell. 

Prof.  J.  E.  Williams. 
Smith  College — 

President  L.   Clark  Seelye. 
L'niversity  of  Cincinnati — 

Prof.  Harris  Hancock. 
Vanderhilt   University — 

Chancellor  J.  H.  Kirkland. 
Johns  Hopkins  University — 

President  Ira  Remsen, 

Prof.  J.  C.  Ballagh, 

Dr.  Howard  A.  Kelly. 

Dr.  Hugh  H.  Voun.g. 


i8 


INSTALLATION   OF  THE  FIRST   PRESIDENT 


University  of  Kentucky — 

Judge  Lyman  Chalkley. 

Prof.  Thomas  B.  McCartney,  Jr. 
Washington  University — 

President  \V.  S.  Chaplin. 
Massachusetts     Institute     of     Tech- 
nology— 

President  Henry  S.  Pritchett, 

Prof.  Gaetano  Lanza. 
Vassar  College — 

President  James  M.  Taylor. 
University  of  Texas — 

President  Wm.  L.  Prather. 
University  of  North  Dakota — 

President  Webster  Merrifield. 
Barnard  College — 

Dean  Laura  D.   Gill. 
Randolph-Macon       College       for 
Women — 

President  W.  W.  Smith. 


State  Female  Normal  School- 
President  J.  L.  Jarman. 
State  Normal  College  of  North  Caro- 
lina— 

President  Charles  D.   Mclver. 
Bridgewater  College — 

President  Walter  B.  Yount. 
Agricultural   College  of  North  Caro- 
lina— 

Prof.  W.  F.  Massey. 
University  of  Chicago — 

Dean  Albion  W.  Small, 

Prof.  Blewitt  Lee. 
Baltimore  L^niversity  School  of  ]\Iedi- 
cine — 

Dean  H.  H.  Biedler. 


SEVENTH  DIJ'ISION. 

THE    FACULTY    OF    THE    UNIVERSITY. 

Marshals — Adjunct    Professor   Faulkner,    Adjunct    Professor    Flipimn. 


Francis  Henry  Smith, 
William  Elisha  Peters, 
Noah  Knowles  Davis, 
William  Morris  Fontaine, 
Ormond  Stone, 
William   Mynn  I'lidrnton, 
Francis    Perry    Dunningtni 
Jolm   William  Mallet, 
Milton   Wylic   Humphreys, 
Albert  Henry  Tuttle, 
Paul   Brandon   P)arringcr, 
Charles  William  Kent, 
William   Minor  Lile, 
William   Gay  Christian, 
Augustus  Harper  Bucknia.- 
James   Albert    Harrison, 
William    ll.)I<ling   bxliols, 
Richard    ilealh    Dal.ncy, 
Charles  Allrr.l  Graves, 


John  Staige  Davis, 
Raleigh  Colston  Minor, 
Richard  Henry  Wilson, 
James  Morris  Page, 
Thomas  Fitzhugh, 
William   Alexander   L;in 
William    Harrison    l-anlK 
James   Carroll    h'lippin. 
Lewis  Littlepagc   llollad 
William   Jackson    Hump 
Edward   .May   .M;igruiKr 
W'illiam   .Mann    K.mdoli) 
James  Hamilton   i'.rouni 
Charles  Scott  Wn.ible. 
Ilalstead  Shipnian    I  ledi 
William    Douglas    .Maon 
Robert    llenning    Webb, 
James   Thomas    Walker. 


OF   THE    UXIVEKSITY    OK    VIKtilNIA. 


19 


1- Kill  III  ninsiox. 
\-isrruKS  Axi)  ()ii-i(,-i:ks  oi"  iiii-.  r.\i\'i:Ksi  r\'.  i':x-\'isri'()RS, 

11 1 1".   MIM.I-.R    HOARD  Ol''    IRLSI'. 


]Iarsliiils—VKin-E» 
)()\viiinK, 


liciiry    11 
Carter  Glass, 
Alexander  W.   Wallace, 
William    II,    White. 

'riionias    H.   Carter, 


Jij^eph  Bryan, 
Armistead  C.  Gordon, 
Henry  C.  Stuart, 
R.  W.  Martin, 
Micajah  Woods, 

J.)hn  M.  White, 
John  B.  Moon, 
Joseph  Wilnier. 
Channing  M.  Bolton, 


R     SniNK.     I'uol'KSSdk     (iUAVKS. 

Benjamin   1-".    Buchanan, 
Daniel    llarnmn, 
I'.piia   I  i  union.  Jr., 
R.  Walton  M.M.i-c. 

John  S.  I'alton, 
Howard  Win^-ton. 


A.  B.  Chandler, 
Mason  Gordon, 
Marshall   McCorniick, 
L.  R.  W\atts. 

George  Perkins, 
Charles  E.  Vawter, 
George  W.  Morris, 
R.  T.  W.  Duke,  Jr. 


xiXTH  nnisiON. 

SPEAKERS  Ol-  THE  DAY  AND  OTHER  SPECIAL  GUESTS.  THE 

GOVERXOR    Ol-    \'IR(;iXIA.    T1H-:    RECTOR    OI-'    Till-: 

rXlX'KRSlTV.    THE    PRESIDENT    OE   THE 

uxivERsrrv. 

Marshals — Deax  Christian.  Deax   I)AiiN?:v. 


Rev.  Richard  I).  Smart. 

Epworth  Church,   Xorfolk. 
Archibald  Cary  Coolidge, 

Professor  Harvard  University. 
Walter  Barnard  Hill, 

Chancellor  University  of  Georgi: 
Erancis   Henry  Smith. 


Xicholas  Murray   Butler, 

President   Columbia   University. 

Richard  Henry  Jesse. 

President    University    of    Missouri. 

Robert  Curtis  Ogden, 

President      Snnthern       Educational 
Board. 


Professor  University  of  Virginia.     James  Pinckney  Harri-ou. 


Robert  Glenn, 

Governor  of  North  Carolina. 
John  Warwick  Daniel. 

United  States  Senator. 
Andrew  Jackson  Montague, 

Governor  of  Virginia. 
Rev.  Samuel  C.  Mitchell, 

Professor  Richmond  College. 


Vice-President       ( ieueral 
.Association. 
Thomas  Staples  Martin. 

United  States  Senator. 
Charles  Pinckney  Jinies. 

Rector  of  the  University. 
Edwin  Anderson  Alderman, 

President  of  the  Universitv. 


\luu 


Exercises    in    the    Public    Hall,    Acadcinic 
Building. 

LWOrATloX. 

BY  THE  KEV.   KUllAKI)  1).   S.MAKT,   D.  D.^ 
NOUKOLK,    VA. 

Alniii^htv  (;o(l,  (lur  heavenly  leather,  from  everlasting  to  everlast- 
ing Thou  art  God.  high  over  all.  Iilessed  for  evermore.  We  acknowl- 
edge Thee  as  the  source  of  all  life  and  light  and  truth,  so  that  it  is  in 
Thee  that  we  live  and  move  and  have  our  being.  \Vc  pray  that  Thou 
wilt  graciously  smile  upon  us  as  we  are  here  assembled  in  the  interest 
of  higher  education  and  of  the  highest  development  of  the  best  that  is 
in  us.  \\c  thank  ihcc  for  this  institution  of  learning.  Wc  thank 
Thee  for  the  wise  men  of  old  who  laid  its  foundations  broad  and  deep 
and  well.  We  thank  Thee  for  the  work  it  has  accomplished,  for  the 
high  ideals  it  has  ever  held  up  before  the  people,  and  for  the  many 
illustrious  sons  who,  having  gone  forth  from  its  walls  into  all  the 
walks  of  life,  have  rendered  high  and  helpful  service  to  mankind. 
And  now.  O  Lord,  as  this  day  marks  a  new  departure  in  the  history 
of  this  institution,  we  invoke  Thy  special  blessings  upon  it.  .May  its 
friends  far  and  near  rally  to  its  su])port  as  never  before.  May  its 
equipment  for  the  work  retjuired  of  it  in  the  century  upon  which  we 
are  now  entering  be  large  and  ample.  P.less  the  great  Commonwealth 
that  fosters  it;  the  Board  of  \isitors  that  controls  it;  the  officers  and 
teachers  who  serve  it  :  and  the  students  who  from  time  to  time  may 
seek  instruction  within  its  walls.  .May  they  not  only  have  their  intel- 
lects disciplined  and  their  minds  well  stored  with  useful  information, 
but  may  they  also  imbibe  those  nobler  lessons  of  virtue  and  of  truth 
that  shall  make  them  wise  unto  salvation.  Ksi)ecially  do  we  invoke 
Thy  blessings,  O  Lord,  upon  Thy  servant  who  has  been  called  to 
preside  over  the  destinies  of  this  University.  In  the  discharge  of  the 
responsible  and  delicate  duties  of  this  newly  created  office  vouchsafe 
unto  him  that  wi>(loni  which  cometh  down  from  above  and  is  profitable 


22  IXSTALLATIOX   OF  THE   FIRST   I'RESIUEXT 

to  direct.  Alul  so  niav  this  institution,  in  a  larger  sense  than  ever 
before,  be  a  fountain  the  streams  of  which  shall  roll  on  broad  and 
deep  and  pure  down  through  many  generations,  blessing  children  yet 
unborn.  These  things  we  ask  in  His  name,  who  hath  taught  us  when 
we  pray  to  say.  Our  Father,  etc. 

IXDUCTIOX  OF  THE  PRESIDENT. 

BY  THE  RECTOR,  CHARLES   PINCKNEY   JONES^ 
MONTEREY,    VA. 

Mr.  President,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen  : — A  growing  public 
sentiment  in  favor  of  a  change  in  the  government  of  this  University 
caused  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Commonwealth  to  impose  upon 
the  Rector  and  Visitors,  as  the  governing  body,  the  duty  of  electing  a 
president.  This  sentiment  was  based  on  the  loyalty  and  devotion  to 
the  best  interests  of  the  University  of  all  her  friends;  and  the  Board 
of  Visitors,  after  patient  and  anxious  thought  on  the  subject,  finally 
concluded  the  duty  assigned  it  by  the  election  of  Dr.  Edwin  Anderson 
Alderman  to  the  high  and  responsible  trust.  We  are  therefore  met, 
on  this  anniversary  of  the  birth  of  our  great  founder,  to  formally 
inaugurate  this  change  in  our  government,  and  induct  Dr.  Alderman 
into  office  as  our  first  President. 

To  the  alumni  and  friends  of  the  institution  who  know  the  mode 
in  which  the  government  has  been  administered  in  the  past  through  a 
Chairman  of  the  Faculty,  the  change  possesses  much  significance. 
After  following  the  plan  of  Mr.  Jefferson  for  three-quarters  of  a 
century,  we  have  come  to  depart  from  that  feature  of  our  educational 
government  inaugurated  by  him.  and  to  fall  in  line  witli  our  sister 
universities  in  this  respect,  so  that  in  tlie  future  we  will  have  a  siui^le 
head  devoted  to  the  service  of  educaticm  and  with  more  time  to  gi\'e 
to  special  interests  than  could  possibly  have  been  given  h\-  the  Chair- 
man of  the  I'aculty.  And  while  we  are  carrying  into  effect  \\u> 
change,  we  are  doing  so  with  the  hope  that  the  office  will  be  so 
administered  as  to  (le])art  as  little  as  may  be  from  the  constitution  of 
Mr,  Jefferson,  and  with  the  confident  assurance  that  il  will  be  so 
administered  as  to  change  in  no  respect  the  unwritten  law  of  lionesl\- 
and  truthfulness,  which  are  leading,  and,  it  may  he  said,  fundamental 
features  of  our  government  And  mav  we  not  l)elieve  that  the  changi 
now  made  would  have  been  sanctioned  li\-  Mr.  jel'ferson  under  condi- 
tions as  thev  now  exist? 

It  only  remains  for  me,  sir,  acting  for  the  I'luard  of  X'isitors,  to 
declare  you  llu'  l're>i(leiU  of  the  CniNHM-sity  of  \irginia,  .-lud  to  (leli\-er 
you  its  chai-ter,  and  to  pledge  to  you  the  heartiest  sui)port  thai  the 
I')oard  of  X'isitors  can  "ive  vou. 


OK   THE    INlVKUSnV    Ol"    \IUi.lMA  23 

^"l)U  Will  now  roccivo  ymir  oalh  of  office:  "Do  you  soiciniily 
swear  tlial  you  will  faithfully  discharge  and  jjerforni  all  the  (huies 
incumbent  upon  \  on  as  ['resident  of  the  L'niversity  of  X'irginia. 
according'  to  the  hest  of  yoiu-  ahility.  so  help  you  (jod?  " 

The^l 'resident:     •■  I   do." 

1  ;u-cepl  the  presidene\-  of  this  I'niNersily,  Mr.  Ri-ctor,  with 
huniilit\-  and  yet  with  i)ride.  Snstaine(l  and  streni.;theneil  hy  the 
counsel  and  co-operation  of  the  IJoard  of  Visitors,  of  my  coIlea}.(Ucs 
of  llie  faculty,  of  the  sons  of  this  I'inversity,  and  of  good  citizens 
everywhere.  I  undertake  this  task  with  hojje  and  courai;e.  To  obey 
its  statutes;  to  respect  its  ancient  spirit;  to  maintain  its  lofty  iileals; 
to  seek  with  patience  the  laws  of  its  growth;  to  <;ive  to  its  service, 
with  gla(hiess.  whatever  strength  1  liave.  All  this  1  shall  seek  to  do. 
By  God's  help.  1  will. 

.\DDRESSES. 

For  \'ik(;i.\i.\.  a.\u  Hek  Other  Institutions. 

i5y  c.overxor  .\.\drew  j.\tks0n   m0nt.\(;ue. 

Mr.  President,  Rector  of  the  i'iii7'ersity.  and  J'isitors: 

In  the  stir  of  expectancy  which  greets  this  occasion,  and  the 
exulting  confidence  with  which  we  look  in  the  future,  we  can  not 
forget  the  deeds  and  traditions  of  this  institution  and  the  purposes 
for  which  it  was  founded.  The  Father  of  this  University  contributed 
more  fully  than  any  statesman  of  his  day  and  generation  to  the 
educational  needs  of  a  republic.  He  devised  this  school,  not  for  sub- 
jects of  a  king,  but  for  citizens  of  a  republic,  lie  believed  a  govern- 
ment resting  upon  the  people  is  a  house  built  n])on  s;ind  unless  freedom 
is  vitalized  by  intelligence,  and  exercised  with  a  sober  sense  of  res])on- 
sibilily.  'I'his  institution,  as  Jefferson  wrought  it  out  in  his  wisdom 
and  affection,  was  the  culmination  of  .a  system  of  public  education 
and  intended  to  be  an  iusjiiration  of  democratic  ideals  and  a  constant 
stimulus  to  the  loftiest  aspirations   for  culture  and  science. 

Accordingly  Mr.  Jeffer.son  appealed  to  the  people  for  this  Univer- 
sity, and  by  their  authority  and  resource  were  form  and  substance 
given  to  this  undertaking.  This  school  lives  off  the  State,  but  it  also 
lives  for  the  State ;  and  while  we  must  be  careful  of  what  we  get  from 
the  people,  we  nnust  be  more  eager  about  that  which  we  give  back  to 
the  people.  W'e  nnist  demand  that  this  agency  of  the  ])enple.  as  it 
grows  in  new  jjower  and  strength,  shall  also  grow  in  service  to  the 
people  of  the  land.  \\'e  must  i)lace  her  hand  in  luaternal  touch  with 
the  common  schools  of  our  lan<l.  thcrebv  ener"izim/  all  the  forces  that 


24  INSTALLATION   OF   THE   FIRST   PRESIDENT 

make  for  popular  enlightenment.  These  primary  schools  should  know- 
that  in  the  halls  of  this  University  are  lights  of  guidance  for  them,  and 
in  her  chairs  are  fathers  and  friends  of  all  forms  of  education.  We 
must  ask  her  to  set  herself  anew  to  the  democratization  of  education 
in  order  that  an  equality  of  opportunity  shall  come  to  every  child  who 
would  know  and  serve  his  day  and  generation. 

Assuming  as  of  right  the  leadership  in  our  Connnonwealth.  she 
should  do  so  in  affectionate  co-operation  with  all  other  educational 
institutions,  public  and  private,  thus  strengthening  and  ennoliling  the 
spirit  of  culture,  and  unifying  the  forces  of  education.  For  only  in 
so  far  as  this  University  renders  itself  necessary  to  the  people,  and 
complemental  to  all  other  educational  interests  of  the  State,  will  it 
fulfil  the  ampler  purposes  of  its  founder;  for  the  attachment  of  the 
people  and  the  affections  of  sister  institutions  are  among  the  chief 
assets  in  the  endowment  of  any  great  university. 

So  today  we  would  recall  her  traditions  that  we  may  thereby 
consecrate  ourselves  anew  to  the  purposes  of  her  foundation,  and  as 
her  devoted  children  in  the  hour  of  her  buoyant  strength  we  come  to 
bring  whatsoever  we  have  of  energy  and  wisdom  for  the  promotion 
of  her  growth  and  the  extension  of  her  influence  in  the  republic  of 
culture  and  in  the  democracy  of  love  and  law. 

For  the  Faculty, 
by  professor  francis  henry  smith. 

It  has  perhaps  been  observed  that  Virginians  from  this  section, 
when  speaking  in  public  —  whatever  their  theme  may  be  —  rarely  close 
without  swerving  toward  Monticello  and  circulating  about  Thomas 
Jefferson.  That  eminent  man  reminds  us  of  a  giant  planet  that  cap- 
tures every  comet  and  meteor  which  dashes  into  its  sphere. 

Surely,  however,  on  this  day  and  at  this  place,  it  is  natural  tliat 
our  thoughts  should  turn  to  him  of  whom  our  countrymen  everywhere 
are  thinking.  A  few  years  since,  one  of  my  colleagues  at  a  Faculty 
meeting  said  that,  in  all  but  the  name,  Mr.  Jefferson  was  President  of 
the  University  of  N'irginia.  Indeed,  it  looks  so.  From  his  aerie  on 
yonder  mountain  he  watched  the  progress  of  these  buildings.  In  a 
room  near  by  is  the  telescope  he  is  said  to  have  usid.  If  he  saw 
anything  wrong,  tradition  says,  a  gallop  of  twenty  minutes  brought 
him  to  the  spot.  He  searched  this  and  other  lands  for  his  Faculty, 
inviting  Ticknor  from  Bo.ston,  Cooper  from  Charleston,  and,  I  l)elie\e, 
Priestley  from  Pennsylvania.  He  maintained  close  personal  and  social 
relations  with  the  ])rofcssors  and  leading  students.  He  conducted  the 
Universitv"s   eorresi)on(lence   witli    learned   men    Hke    |)iii)ont,   of    Oela- 


OF     IIIK    I   .\l\  ICKSnV    l)K    \IKi.lM\.  2$ 

ware,  ami  I'.arlow.  of  \\  nolw  icli.  lie  was  iiR-dialor  l)<.l\virii  llic 
L'nivcrsity   and  tin.'   LcgislaluiX'  ami  people  of   Xirs^nnia. 

After  an  interval  of  eighty  years,  it  seemed  wise  to  llie  ( ieneral 
Asseml)l\  and  to  the  almnni.  to  the  I'.oard  of  \isitors  and  to  the 
I'acnltw  that  the  I'niversity  should  as^ain  ha\e  a  K'adi'r,  with  nothing;- 
to  do  Imt  to  lead,  \irginia  could  otfer  no  hi,i;her  honor  to  any  man 
than  to  invite  him  to  succeed  her  i:!;vvd{  son.  The  office  of  President 
was  created,  and  the  Board,  after  two  years  of  patient  search,  selected 
for  its  first  occupant  a  son  of  the  South,  devoted  to  the  South,  and  at 
the  same  time  an  American  w  ilh  sympathies  as  broad  as  our  great  land. 
After  a  pleasant  association  with  him  for  six  months,  filled  with  new 
inspiration  and  hope,  the  l'"aonlty  heartily  and  unanimously  ratifies  the 
selection  of  the   Hoard. 

On  this  impressive  occasion  the  I'aculty  might  offer  many  subjects 
of  congratulation.     Time  allows  us  only  to  mention  two. 

In  the  first  place,  the  Faculty  congratulates  the  University  and 
you,  Mr.  President,  that  you  do  not  come  to  us  to  take  charge  of  a 
sickly  or  dying  institution.  They  rejoice,  as  you  rejoice,  that  Virginia 
has  not  called  you  here  to  raise  the  dead.  If  the  testimony  of  one 
who  has  been  here  for  many  years,  and  has  known  the  University  in 
the  old  days  and  now  in  the  new  days,  may  be  received,  the  institution 
had  never  been  in  a  more  vigorous  condition  than  on  that  bright  day 
when  you  came  to  us.  Her  Faculty  and  students  were  more  than 
doubled  in  number.  Her  halls  were  filled  with  a  company  of  young 
men  who,  in  manliness,  loyalty  to  truth  and  honor,  devotion  to  and 
success  in  study,  were  not  unworthy  successors  of  those  fine  fellows, 
often  their  fathers  and  grandfathers,  who  brightened  these  arcades 
fifty  years  ago.  Our  equipment  in  libraries,  apparatus,  laboratories, 
and  buildings  generally  was  better  than  ever;  more  than  .all  this  the 
University  had  a  larger  number  of  devoted  alumni  and  was  nearer  to 
the  people  of  Virginia  than  ever  before.  In  the  ])romising  future 
and  the  enlarged  possibilities  which  your  coming.  Mr.  President,  has 
opened  to  us,  may  w-e  not  rejoice  with  you  that  you  head  a  cohunn 
whose  faces  are  already  turned  toward  the  morning? 

In  the  second  place,  the  Faculty  would  congratul.ite  the  Univer- 
sity, and  yourself,  that  you  come  from  North  Carolina.  ( )ur  hearts 
grow  a  little  w.irmer  at  the  mention  of  a  name  with  which  \'irginia 
has  been  bound  in  many  tender  memories.  These  two  States  have, 
side  by  side,  passed  through  bright  days  and  dark  days.  X'irginia 
sacredly  keeps  the  dust  of  many  of  Carolina's  brave  boys,  and  her 
Hving  sons  fill  places  of  honor  and  trust  among  us  to  our  great  advan- 
tage. W'e  are  proud  of  her  grand  mountains,  her  noble  forests,  her 
sparkling  rivers,  and  broad  savannahs,  possessed  by  a  i)eoi)le  worthy 


26  INSTALLATION    OF  THE   FIRST   PRESIDENT 

of  SO  beautiful  a  home  —  a  gallant  race,  and  one  which  has  ever  been 
among  the  foremost  in  peace  and  in  war.  We  remember  that  within 
her  borders  was  born  the  first  white  child  of  this  great  land,  and.  as 
was  fitting  in  what  was  to  be  a  Southern  State,  that  child  was  a  girl, 
and  her  name  was  Virginia.  North  Carolina,  like  Massachusetts,  was 
then  a  part  of  \'irginia.  May  they  always  be  united  in  feeling  and  in 
friendship,  if  not  in  name.  In  1728  Colonel  William  Byrd  drew  what 
he  called  "  the  dividing  line  between  Virginia  and  North  Carolina." 
If  that  dividing  line  exists  today  except  as  a  geographical  fiction,  may 
your  coming  to  us  help  to  obliterate  it  finally  and  forever. 

It  only  remains  to  say.  Mr.  President,  that  with  regard  to  the 
future  the  Facultv,  I  am  sure,  will  promise  you  two  things,  both  of 
which  they  believe  to  be  dear  to  your  heart. 

In  the  first  place,  they  promise  to  maintain  at  its  old  level  and 
standard  the  faithful  work  done  in  these  lecture  rooms.  I'hey  know 
that  this  quiet,  unostentatious  labor  does  not  arrest  the  public  eye,  but 
Ihey  believe  that  it  is  their  chief  business  here.  Not  more  surely  do 
the  architectural  glories  of  a  great  building  rest  upon  and  owe  their 
permanency  to  the  courses  of  masonry  hidden  out  of  sight  below  the 
.soil,  than  do  the  rank  and  fame  of  this  University  depend  at  last  upon 
the  good  work  done  day  by  day  in  her  classrooms.  How  dreary  is 
this  daily  grind  to  a  teacher  who  is  only  a  hireling ;  but  to  him  who 
values  aright  the  privilege  and  responsibility  of  molding  these  young 
lives,  the  dull  routine  loses  its  tedium  and  becomes  divine.  The  Faculty 
promise  you  that  this  prime  part  of  their  duty,  including  interest  in  all 
that  goes  to  make  tip  our  internal  life,  shall  be  loyally  performed. 

They  recognize,  however,  that  a  new  day  has  arisen  upon  our 
land,  and  that  an  American  universitv  is  no  longer  a  local  institution, 
but  an  important  factor  in  our  national  life.  Universities  were  once 
cloisters,  beautiful  within,  but  frowning  without,  training  their  mem- 
bers away  from  and  not  into  society.  Now  their  quadrangles  are  open 
to  the  light  and  air;  and  the  ])ulses  of  the  national  life  imade  and 
thrill  all  their  recesses.  The  universities  of  our  cdunlry  bclnni;-  to  a 
real  imion,  though  with  an  unwritten  constitution.  What  happens  to 
•one  concerns  all.  When  a  fire  swee])s  away  all  that  lire  can  destrov, 
messages  of  sympathy  and  offers  of  hel])  burden  e\ery  mail.  Fiflv 
years  ago  such  a  scene  as  this  around  us  now  was  unknown.  The 
Faculty  feels  that  in  this  modern  extension  of  a  nni\ersit\"s  external 
relations  and  duties  yon  will  have  a  burden  n]»on  \on  almost  too  great 
for  any  man.  They  rt'S])ect  fully  ol'fer  yon  such  co-operation  within 
their  ability  as  you  may  honor  them  by  requesting. 

In  conclusion,  the  faculty  express  to  you.  Mr.  I 'i-esii|ent,  the 
hope,  rising  to  a  prayer,  that  your  future  leadership  nia\-  be  as 
.successful  as  the  beginning  of  it   has  been  ansnicions. 


OF   TIIK    IN  1\  KKSri  V    111-    \IKl.lMA.  27 

I'OK  Tllh;   Al.l MM. 

IIY    SEXATOK   THOMAS    SIAI'I.KS    MAKTIX. 
SCOTTSVILLE^   VA. 

Luilics  ciiiil  Cii-utli-iiu-ii  : 

(  )n  hcliall'  (if  llu'  aluinni,  coniniissioiK'd  so  tn  do  li\-  tlir  l",xccutivc 
(."oniniittcc  of  the  ( 'h--ikt;i1  Association  of  Alumni,  the  honor  has 
(k'\olvc(l  upon  nic  to  say  a  few  words  on  this  interesting  occasion, 
.since  the  formal  ojieniut;-  of  this  L'niversity  on  the  7th  day  of  March. 
iS_'5.  no  e\ent  has  occurred  in  its  history  of  equal  importance  with 
that  event  which  hrinj^s  this  assembly  here  on  tliis  occasion.  Ancient 
systems  and  usages  ha\e  my  .greatest  respect,  especially  systems  and 
usages  which  liave  wrought  such  great  good  as  has  been  wrought  l)y 
those  systems  and  by  the  usages  prevailing  in  this  institution.  I 
believe,  however,  in  government  and  in  progress.  Speaking  for  myself 
and  for  the  alumni  of  this  institution,  I  welcome  the  important  and 
radical  innovation  which  has  been  made:  welcome  the  office  of  presi- 
deiU.  We  welcome  to  that  office  the  able,  scholarly  and  distinguish.ed 
educator  who  has  been  chosen  by  the  Rector  and  the  Hoard  of  Visitors 
of  this  institution  to  preside  over  the  destinies  of  an  institution,  the 
founding  of  which  constituted  the  third  greatest  achievement  of  the 
greatest  of  all  Americans 

Thomas  Jeft'erson,  it  is  true,  did  not  give  to  this  University  a 
president:  jjcrhaps  his  hostility  to  the  idea  of  the  centralization  of  too 
nuich  power  in  one  in<H\idual  influenced  him  against  that  idea.  h"ro- 
quently  we  hear  it  said  that  Thomas  Jefferson  was  oi)posed  to  a 
president  of  the  University  of  Virginia.  I  have  been  unable  to  find 
anything  in  the  utterances  of  Thomas  Jefferson  justifying  the  belief 
that  he  had  reached  a  deliberate  conclusion  that  there  should  be  no 
presi(K-nt   for  this  institution. 

In  Aprd,  \Xj(k  the  Hoard  of  X'isitors  elecleil  William  Wirt  to  be 
the  President  of  the  I'niversity,  ])r()vi(ling  in  the  resolution  that  if 
William  Wirt  did  not  accept  the  office  that  the  action  of  the  Hoard 
establishing  the  office  should  be  null  rni<l  void.  Mr.  Jeff'erson  entered 
u])on  the  minute  book  on  that  occasion  his  objection  to  a  jjresident 
of  this  University  at  that  time.  He  based  his  objection  on  four  distinct 
grounds : 

First  —  He  stated  that  he  did  not  believe,  under  existing  law.  that 
the  Board  of  X'isitors  had  the  power  to  elect  a  president  : 

Second  —  Tie  stated  that  the  financial  condition  of  the  I'niversity 
was  such  that  it  was  not  financially  able  to  jiay  the  salary  of  a 
president  : 

Third — He   stated   that    the   duties  of  a   iiresideiit.   such   duties   as 


28  INSTALLATION   OF   THE   FIRST   PRESIDENT 

were  assigned  to  tlie  president  ])y  the  then  made  enactment,  were  at 
that  time  l)eing  satisfactorily  performed  without  a  president ; 

(I  have  a  verbatim  copy  of  what  Mr.  JctYerson  wrote  on  that 
occasion  on  the  minute  book  of  the  Board. ) 

Fourth  —  He  objected  on  the  ground  tliat  there  was  not  a  full 
Board  in  attendance,  only  seven  of  the  nine  members  being  present. 

Now.  I  respectfully  submit  that  there  is  not  to  be  found  in  this 
paper  of  Mr.  Jefferson's  anything  justifying  this  statement  that  he 
was  opposed,  per  sc.  to  a  president  for  this  institution.  What  he 
stated  will  be  well  expressed  by  the  last  paragraph  in  what  he  himself 
at  the  time  wrote,  after  having  assigned  the  four  reasons  I  have 
mentioned. 

Certainly  it  might  have  been  inexpedient  at  that  time,  under 
existing  conditions,  to  elect  a  president,  and  yet  the  man  who  con- 
sidered it  inexpedient  at  that  time  under  those  conditions  need  not 
have  come  to  a  deliberate  conclusion  that  a  man  should  not  at  any 
time  become  the  president  to  preside  over  the  destinies  of  this  great 
institution. 

I  revert  to  this  memorandum  made  by  Mr.  Jeft'erson,  not  that  I 
would  feel  that  the  governing  body  of  this  institution  at  that  time 
should  be  restrained  from  doing  what  was  good  for  this  institution 
because  Mr.  Jeft'erson  in  1826  thought  otherwise,  for  my  reverence 
for  this  man  is  such  that  it  is  a  pleasing  duty  to  me  to  do  all  I  can 
to  demonstrate  that  the  action  taken  would  have  had  his  approval. 

While  Mr.  Jefferson  did  not  give  to  this  University  a  president, 
he  breathed  into  its  organism  and  life  principles  that  have  lived 
and  grown  with  the  life  and  growth  of  the  institution  :  —  The  principle 
of  individual  liberty,  of  individual  responsibility,  the  principle  of  free- 
dom, the  principle  of  equality,  of  right,  and  of  opportunity.  These 
principles  all  entered  into  the  organization  of  this  University  from 
the  very  hour  of  its  birth.  As  the  power  invested  in  a  president  of 
the  United  States  is  no  menace  to  the  sovereignty  of  the  several  States 
composing  this  I'nion,  so  the  existence  of  a  president  to  preside  over 
this  institution  is  no  menace  to  the  independence  of  the  several  schools 
constituting  this  great  University.  As  the  power  of  a  president  exer- 
cised under  a  written  constitution  is  no  menace  to  the  rights  of  the 
individual  American  citizen,  so,  1  may  sa\-.  tlie  powers  of  a  president 
at  this  University  need  not  infringe,  and  will  not  infringe,  ujjon  the 
free  exercise  of  individuality,  of  responsibility  by  every  student  wlio 
mav  enter  the  walls  of  this  I'niversity.  I'.ut  Mr.  Jefferson  ga\-e  to 
this  institution  one  great  eharacteristie  to  which  I  nuist  briefly  allude. 
It  is  perhaps  the  most  distinguished  eharacteristie  of  all  others  con- 
nected   w'illi    the    I'niversilv  :  -      that    is,    the    honor    systtMU.      Honor    in 


(i|-   riiK  IN  i\  Kusirv  (ii-   \iK(,iM\.  29 

the  classi\)om,  IiniKir  in  tlu'  (.•xiiininatiun  ronni.  hniior  in  llu-  daily 
associations  of  life  has  Iiolu  tho  foundation  in-inciplo  which  has  guided 
and  directed  the  students  from  the  very  day  this  institution  was 
founded.  This  has  ,L;rt>wn,  and  nut  of  it  an  rsf^rit  dc  corps  as  high  and 
as  grand  as  can  well  he  conceived  of;  and  in  turning  over  this  Uni- 
versity to  the  control  of  the  newly  elected  President,  and  in  extending 
to  that  President  the  cordiaf  co-operation  and  support  of  the  alumni 
from  one  end  of  this  land  to  another,  I  can  not  refrain  from  saying  in 
the  name  of  the  alumni  everywhere,  to  our  distinguished  President, 
that  these  principles  which  were  l)reatlied  into  this  institution  hy  its 
illustrious  founder  we  confide  to  him  witli  the  earnest  hojjc  that  they 
may  he  accentuated  and  never  diminished. 

In  conclusion,  ladies  and  gentlemen,  as  the  Board  of  X'isitors 
have  pledged  to  the  President  support  and  co-operation,  and  as  the 
Faculty  have  in  like  manner  set  themselves  to  what  they  have  done  in 
the  i)ast — for  de\-e]oi)ment.  growtli  and  prosperity  of  our  alma  mater, 
so  I  say  to  the  almnni,  as  one  man.  may  they  rallv  round  the  President 
and  sustain  liim  in  all  his  et'forls  to  make  tiiis  great  I'niversitv  even 
greater  than  it  is  now. 

For  Si.ster  Universities  of  the  East. 

by  professor  .\rch  ii',.\ld  c.\ry  cooliutie,  of  h.\k\-.\ri). 

Ladies  and  Gciillcincii  : 

Von  have  heen  listening  to  the  words  of  your  nearer  hrethren,  to 
the  Governor  of  the  State,  the  representatives  of  the  Faculty  and  of 
the  alumni  of  your  own  University.  They  iiave  dwelt  in  eloquent 
tones  on  the  loftiness  of  her  iileals.  on  llie  nohilily  of  her  achievement, 
and  on  the  manifold  service  which  she  has  rendered  to  this  State,  to 
the  South,  to  the  whole  country.  I'.ui  the  voice>  that  shoidd  testify 
in  her  praise  are  not  merely  those  of  her  own  children.  Her  name  is 
known  far  and  wide,  and  her  influence  has  affected  many  who  have 
had  no  claim  to  direct  connection  with  her.  It  is  meet,  therefore,  that 
on  an  occasion  like  the  prc.'^ent,  the  sister  universities  from  near  and 
far  should  send  their  message  of  good-will  and  rejoicing;  and  to  me 
has  fallen  the  high  honor  of  heing  the  first  to  speak  in  a  greeting  in 
the  name  of  the  universities  of  the  Fast,  many  of  which  are  among 
the  oldest  in  the  land.  It  is  true  that  I  am  hut  the  insufficient  suhsti- 
tute  of  the  man  who  more  fittingly  than  any  other  couhl  convey  to  vou 
this  greeting.  1  woidd  that  it  might  reach  you  from  the  lijjs  of  Presi- 
dent Eliot,  of  Harvard,  whose  own  character  and  position  would  give 
additional  weight  tfi  the  words.  I'or  more  than  thirty  years  he  has 
guided  and  directed  the  institution  committed  to  his  care ;  he  has  met 


30  IXSTAI.LA'nOX    OF   THE   FIRST   I'RESIDEXT 

wilh  l;itter  opposition  as  well  as  unsparing  criticism ;  he  has  changed 
methods  whose  value  time  appeared  to  have  consecrated:  he  lias  risked 
experiments  that  were  pronounced  the  height  of  rashness.  And  now 
that  he  has  won  the  day,  that  his  place  is  assured  among  the  foremost 
names  in  the  history  of  American  education,  it  is  he  that  should  be 
here  to  declare  what  not  only  Harvard,  but  all  our  Eastern  universities 
feel  about  their  sister  of  Virginia.  Unavoidable  absence  in  Europe 
has  prevented  him  from  appearing  in  your  midst ;  still  much  as  this  is 
to  be  regretted,  at  least  it  has  the  advantage  that  I  can  bear  witness 
with  a  freedom  that  would  be  impossible  for  him  as  to  what  can  be 
accomplishd  by  the  right  college  president,  what  a  power  for  good 
he  may  be  in  the  community,  and  how  much  he  can  add  to  the  strength 
of  his  institution,  be  it  ever  so  much  attached  to  the  methods  under 
which  it  has  long  prospered,  be  it  ever  so  justly  proud  of  its  traditions. 

Even  to  the  University  of  Virginia  time  brings  its  necessary 
revolutions.  The  truth  is  eternal,  but  the  ways  in  which  it  should  be 
taught  may  vary  from  age  to  age,  and  no  system  is  so  sanctified  by  its 
triumphs  in  the  past  as  to  be  beyond  the  need  of  change  to  meet 
changed  conditions  in  the  future.  You  have  recognized  that  the 
moment  has  come  when  without  sacrificing  any  of  that  spirit  which 
has  made  your  University  what  she  is.  it  has  been  deemed  best  to 
modify  her  organization,  to  centralize  her  control,  and  to  add  to  her 
executive  efficiency,  so  that  she  may  still  better  play  her  part  in 
molding  the  thought  of  this  rapidly  growing  nation.  At  this  crucial 
point  in  her  destinies  it  befits  her  sister  universities  to  wish  her  God- 
speed. Speaking  in  the  name  of  those  of  the  East,  I  can  assure  you 
that  we  have  not  failed  to  appreciate  what  she  has  achieved  an<l  what 
she  represents  today. 

More  than  a  generation  before  the  University  of  A'irginia  was 
founded,  ^'alc  and  Harvard  had  already  shown  tlieir  estimation  of  the 
man  that  was  to  lie  her  founder  by  conferring  upon  him  their  degrees 
of  Doctor  of  Laws,  the  highest  honor  which  it  was  in  their  jxiwer  to 
l)estow.  Many  years  aflerwarcls.  in  iSk;,  Mr.  George  Ticknor,  the 
well-known  liistorian  of  S])anis]i  literature,  then  teaching  in  Cam- 
bridge, wrote  to  Mr.  Jefferson  about  his  favorite  project,  as  t'ollows: 
"  I  rejoice  in  it,  not  only  disintert'stedh-,  as  a  means  of  ])roinoting 
knowledge  and  ha])|)iness,  ])Ut  selfishh-,  as  the  means  of  I'xciting  bv 
powerful  and  dangerous  rivalshi])  tlie  enud.ation  of  our  college  ;it  the 
Xorth."  *  *  *  And  in  our  colleges  we  can  echo  these  words  to 
this  hour. 

All  our  univt'rsities  are  striving  with  limited  resources  to  do  great 
things.  ICach  in  her  own  way  is  following  out  her  ideals  .'ind  trving 
to  the  best  of  her  al>ilities  to  tr;iin  her  children  and  to  inspire  them  to 


()i-   Till-:  ixnKusirv  oi'  \iki.ini.\.  31 

live  for  sumclhin^-  Iu-^Ikt  tluiii  ^lK•m^^<.■l\  t.--.  In  this  community  ol" 
ctYorl  each  has  taken  her  -liare  and  lias  deserved  our  gratitude.  In 
the  minds  of  her  sisler>.  the  L'ni\er>it\  of  \'ir!j;inia  has  i)articularly 
stood  for  two  inincii.les,  one  of  them  academic,  thou-h  hased  partly 
on  moral  _t;round>.  the  oilier  moral  alone. 

.\t  the  present  day  what  i>  termed  the  elective  syMeni  of  studies 
has  found  it>  way  in  one  form  or  another  into  nii>st  of  our  higher 
institutions  of  learning;  it  has  hegun  to  penetrate  into  the  sclnKtls.  and 
it  has  almost  threatened  the  kindergartens.  This  liherty  of  choice, 
which  at  times  can  degenerate  into  license,  has  now  hecome  an  educa- 
tional commonplace.  We  argue  ahout  the  cpiestion  of  more  or  less, 
of  the  applicability  of  the  system  under  a  given  set  of  circumstances, 
of  the  measures  that  shall  ensure  its  more  judicious  use.  But  the 
idea  has  lost  all  no\elty  for  us.  People  no  longer  even  .stop  to  ask 
where  it  came  from.  And  yet.  when  eighty  years  ago  the  University 
of  \'irginia  was  founded  on  a  basis  broader  than  that  of  any  other 
college  in  the  country,  the  elective  system,  which  you  alone  at  that 
earlv  dav  dared  to  introduce,  was.  indeed,  a  startling  innovation,  one 
that  long  could  find  hut  few  imitators.  N'erily.  it  must  have  caused 
much  shaking  of  the  head  among  the  wiseacres,  who  believed  that  for 
a  path  to  be  straight  it  must  he  narrow,  and  that  the  way  of  learning 
which  they  had  followed  themselves  was  the  only  proper  one  along 
which  to  guide  the  footsteps  of  others.  Time  has  vindicated  your 
wisdom  and  the  foresight  of  your  founder.  The  princii)le  for  which 
you  contended  has  become  a  common  heritage,  ^'ou  have  shown  that 
a  broad  road  to  knowledge  need  not  be  an  easy  one.  for  you  have  kept 
your  standards  .so  high  that  you  have  discouraged  many  an  applicant 
who  would  gladly  have  won  your  degree  if  it  could  have  been  obtained 
at  any  other  cost  than  that  of  long  and  i)alient  toil.  All  this  wc  of 
the  sister  universities  ajipreciate  —  perha])s  not   without   jealousy. 

There  is.  moreover,  another  ])rinci])le  which  we  who  li\e  at  a 
distance  associate  with  the  I'niversity  of  \'irginia.  High  as  she  has 
l)Ut  knowledge  as  her  ideal,  she  has  put  something  else  higher  still. 
She  has  recognized  from  the  beginning  that  her  institution  which  has 
charge  of  youth,  to  mold  them  for  after  life,  fulfils  but  a  part  of  its 
rluty  if  it  niini.sters  merely  to  their  intellects.  The  distinguishing 
mark  oi  its  graduates  should  be  not  only  learning,  but  character. 
That  they  should  be  gentlemen  before  the  scholars.  This  truth,  which 
in  our  modern  striving  for  efficiency  sometimes  apjicars  to  be  dropjiing 
into  the  background,  has  never  been  forgotten  here. 

Who  is  there  in  the  United  States  who  knows  of  the  I'niversity 
of  \'irginia  and  does  not  think  of  her  as  the  home  of  the  honor  system, 
the  priceless  possession  of  which  others  may   well  be  envious?     To 


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ALLATIOX    OF  THE   FIK.'- 


vou  it  seems  as  natural  as  the  air  you  l)reathe.  To  those  less  fortiuiate 
in  this  respect  it  remains,  even  if  dit¥erent  conditions  make  it  difficult 
of  attainment,  an  ideal,  an  encouragement  towards  a  better  state  of 
things  in  the  future.  This  is  well,  for  never  in  our  history  has  there 
been  a  greater  need  of  a  steadfast  maintenance  of  the  principles  of 
character  for  which  you  have  stood  with  such  noble  results.  In  this 
day  of  triumphant  materialism,  when  faiths  are  rambling  and  nothing 
goes  unquestioned,  when  success  at  any  price  is  the  one  achievement 
that  seems  to  appeal  to  a  large  portion  of  the  community,  when  con- 
sciences are  weakened  by  casuistry,  when  simplicity  is  looked  upon 
as  foolishness,  and  when  the  almighty  dollar  tends  openly  or  insidiously 
to  enslave  us  all,  may  the  University  of  Virginia  with  an  ever-enlarged 
sphere  of  influence  stand  as  she  always  has  stood  for  the  principle  of 
the  Scotch  poet,  "  The  man's  the  gold  for  all  that." 

For  Sister  Universities  of  the  North. 

BY   president    NICHOLAS    MURRAY   BUTLER.   OF   COLUMBIA. 

Lodics  and  Gentlemen: 

One  of  the  most  charming  of  the  shorter  dialogues  of  Plato  has  for 
its  subject  friendship.  After  subtle  and  amusing  discussions,  you  will 
remember,  Socrates  and  his  two  young  friends  profess  themselves  un- 
able to  discover  what  is  a  friend  !  If  fools  may  rush  in  where  angels 
fear  to  tread,  shall  we  not  say  that  intimate  association,  complete  confi- 
dence, and  intellectual  sympathy  are  the  sure  basis  of  friendship  l)ctween 
men  ?  Then  are  we  met  today  —  some  of  us,  I  know,  many  of  us.  no 
doubt  —  to  hail  a  friend,  to  bid  him  (iod-speed,  and  to  stand  at  his  side 
while  he  publicly  consecrates  himself  to  the  service  of  an  ideal.  And 
than  that  ideal  there  is  none  loftier  or  more  noble.  It  is  the  service 
of  truth  and  of  mankind,  surrounded  by  all  the  ui)lifl.  all  the  vigor, 
and  all  the  opportunity  of  our  American  democracy. 

The  human  brain  has  conceived  no  finer  career  than  that  offered 
bv  a  universitv  in  a  democracy.  Xo  longer  do  universities,  however 
beautiful  their  fabric,  content  themselves  with  "  whispering  from  tlieir 
towers  the  last  enchantments  of  the  Middle  .\ge."  for  they  must  busily 
_'  manifold  eiichanlments  of  its  own  makinj;-. 
s,  liowever  ancient  iheir  traditions,  carefully 
ey  must  ceaselessly  te;ich  lli;U  the  truly  pr:ic- 
iil  of  those  everlasting  i)riiiciples  which  h,-i\e 
began.  The  shackles,  to(T,  are  gone  —  the 
shackles  i)hilosophic.  the  shackles  scientitic. 
free, 
berty  and  our  university  freedom  grew  up  side  by 


exp 

lain  to  a 

.  new  ;i 

ige  the 

No 

longer  ( 

lo  lun'versitie: 

shun  the  ])r; 

ictical, 

for  till 

tica 

1  is  but  I 

he  eml 

lodime 

been     since 

the    w 

•orld    1 

sha. 

ckles    th. 

.■(.logic. 

the    ^ 

TIk 

•  truth  // 

lis  wv.ie 

le  us  f 

(  »ur  po 

lilical  1 

i  berty 

Ol-    line    r.NIVIiKSITY   Ol-    nikci.nia.  33 

.^iilc.  'riu'  saiiK'  i)r(imi)liiii^s  of  the  spirit  tlial  l)r()iii;lu  to  pass  the  one 
gave  Us  alM)  tlic  ullur.  It  is  worth  miiuliiii;-.  too,  that  it  was  not  bhnd 
passion,  iioi  untaiiK'd  and  reckless  force,  hut  rellectivc  thought  that 
sowed  tlie  seeds  of  hotli.  .\h)reover,  political  liherly  and  university 
freedom  have  this  in  connnon  —  the  niakinsj;  of  men.  iyrauny  and 
censored  lliiid<in>;  may  conceivahly  make  a  man  or  two  now  and  then, 
Imt  they  could  ne\  er  make  men.  .\nd  men,  real  men,  with  disciplined 
minds,  with  fmely  formed  ;ind  lemiiered  ch;iraclers,  with  tile  jjower  to 
i^row  li\  serxins.^,  are  the  best  ])roduct  of  the  ages;  for  with  our  jjolit- 
ical  liherty  ;;iid  our  universities  does  freedom  exist. 

Consider  for  a  moment  what  it  is  that  our  democracy  demands  of 
its  universities.  It  demands  a  detachment  which  judges  fairly  without 
an  aloofness  that  fails  to  sympathize.  It  demands  a  progressiveness 
which  presses  forward  without  a  pace  tliat  leaves  appreciation  breath- 
less. It  demands  a  scholarship  which  is  solid  and  sure  without  a 
pedantry  that  is  sterile  and  suffocating.  It  demands  a  historic  sense 
which  interprets  the  present  by  the  past,  without  an  ancestor-worship 
that  hows  tlie  head  in  contemplative  awe.  It  dem.ands  a  catholicity  of 
s])irii  which  bars  no  excellence  without  a  su])erricial  sentimentality 
that  stops  short  of  having  convictions.  Out  of  these  elements  is  the 
atmosphere  of  a  university  compounded  —  detachment.  ])rogressive- 
ness.  scholarshij).  historic  sense,  catholicity.  Is  it  possible  for  a 
democracy  to  ])ay  loo  much  honor  to  its  universities?  What  life  is 
better  than  a  life  which  helps  a  university  on  its  way? 

It  is  trite  to  say  that  universities  are  among  the  oldest  of  human 
institutions,  yet  it  is  worth  repeating  now  and  then.  Universities  are 
older  than  parliamentary  government,  older  even  than  our  familiar 
spoken  tongues;  they  are  but  a  little  younger  than  the  Roman  law  and 
the  Roman  Church.  Stately,  then,  they  are,  and  wise  with  watching 
maiiv  men  and  manv  moods,  as  well  as  useful  and  skilful,  too,  both 
to  in(|uire  and  to  teacli.  In  the  l)eginniiig  the  universities  never 
doubted  the  validity  of  their  method;  it  was  an  all-con(|uering  syllo- 
gistic logic.  Today  the  uni\ersities  are  little  given  to  doubt  the 
validity  of  that  scientific  method  which  has  dis])laced  the  syllogistic. 
It  may  be  well  for  the  confident  modern  to  remember  the  errors  of 
the  equally  confident  scholar  of  the  Middle  Age  and  to  profit  by  his 
exami)le.  if  possible.  If.  as  Socrates  said,  an  unexamined  life  is  not 
worth  living,  then  surely  an  uncriticised  method  abounds  in  danger. 
The  university  that  does  not  persistently  examine  the  validity  of  its 
method;  that  does  not  question  its  assumptions;  that  docs  not.  in  other 
words,  pay  to  philosophy  its  ju.st  and  necessary  due,  will  not  remain 
a  university  long. 

To  a  universitv  in  a  democracv  vou  come,  old  friend,  as  counselor 


34 


INSTALLATION    OF  THE   FIRST   PRESIDENT 


and  guide.  The  task  is  not  a  new  one  to  your  hea<l  and  hand.  Yonder 
in  the  old  North  State,  and  across  the  mountains  in  the  Crescent  City, 
where  the  mighty  father  of  waters  halts  for  a  moment  before  ending 
his  winding  course,  you  have  taken  the  reins  and  driven  skilfully  the 
chariot  of  scholarship  and  of  service.  Today  the  scene  is  new.  Here 
are  fine  traditions,  noble  ideals,  brilliant  achievement.  :\Iay  the  pass- 
ing years  bring  only  glory  to  the  nation's  University  that  is  set  in  the 
Old  Dominion's  crown,  and  which  bears  her  splendid  name,  and  only 
happiness  and  honor  to  the  President  to  whom  today  with  high  hope 
and  sincere  ati'ection  we  bid  God-speed  ! 

For  Sister  Universities  of  the  South. 

BY  chancellor  WALTER  BARNARD  HILL,  OF  THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  GE0R(;TA. 

Mr.  President: 

Assuming  that  the  geographical  idea  has  had  some  influence  in 
the  making  of  the  program  for  this  auspicious  occasion,  I  shall  take 
the  liberty  of  differentiating  my  congratulations  from  those  of  others 
upon  the  installation  of  your  new  President  by  claiming  the  privilege 
of  speaking  as  the  representative  of  the  South.  Undeterred,  though, 
I  confess,  not  unabashed,  by  this  great  fanfare  and  this  august  pres- 
ence, I  shall  speak  without  reserve  of  hinr  and  in  a  sense  to  hiuL  of 
the  affection  of  his  brothers  in  the  work  of  Southern  education  —  an 
affection  called  forth  by  his  inimitable  personal  charuL  his  great  gifts 
of  intellect,  scholarship  and  eloquence,  his  pure  and  lofty  character. 
Speaking  in  this  intimate  way,  I  am  but  one  among  the  thousands  tliat 
love  him.  and  whose  prayers  will  "Rise  like  a  fountain  for  him  day 
and  night,"  that  he  may  here  work  out  in  conspicuous  realizati(Mi  the 
high  ideal  of  a  great  university — an  ideal  which  he.  when  taking  up 
elsewhere  years  ago  the  duties  of  a  university  i)resi(lent,  pictured  in 
these  glowing  words : 

"  Mv  d'.'sire  would  have  it  a  i)lace  where  there  is  always  a  lirciih 
of  freedom  in  the  air;  where  a  sound  and  various  learning  is  taugr.t 
heartilv  wilbnut  sham  or  i)retense;  where  the  life  and  teachings  oi 
Jesus  Christ  furnish  forth  the  ideal  of  right  living  and  true  manhood; 
where  manners  are  gentle,  and  coin^tesies  daily  nudti|)ly  between 
teacher  and  taught;  where  all  classes  and  conditions  ;nid  beliefs  are 
w^elcome,  and  men  nia\-  rise  in  earnt'st  striving  b\-  the  right  of  nier't  ; 
where  wealth  is  no  ijrejudice  and  poverty  no  shame:  where  honorable 
labor,  vwn  rough  la]>or  of  the  bands,  is  gloritieil  b\-  high  ])uri)ose  and 
streinious  dt'sire  for  tlie  clearer  air  and  the  larger  \iew  ;  wliere  there 
is  a  will  to  ^er\e  all  high  ends  of  a  great  State  struggling  u\)  out  of 
ignorance    into    general    ]io\ver:    where    ukmi    'aw    train(.'d    to    obserx'c 


(IK     TIIK    INIVKKSITY    OK    VIKCINIA.  35 

closely,  to  imagine  vividly,  lo  reason  aoouratvly.  and  In  have  alionl 
them  some  humility  and  some  toleration;  where,  finally,  truth  shininj; 
patiently  like  a  star  bids  us  advance,  and  we  will  not  turn  aside." 

When  I  said,  Mr.  President,  tlial  1  l<>nk  the  lilierty  of  assuming 
that  I  represented  the  Soulli,  1  used  the  i)lira>e  in  its  widest  and  most 
cosmopolitan  meaning.  In  1717,  wlun  Sir  Roliert  Montgoniery  :i])plied 
to  the  King  of  England  lOr  a  grant  ni'  Kinds  hetween  the  rivers 
.savann;di  and  Altaniali;i.  to  he  named  .\zali;i.  he  issurd  ;i  prospectus 
to  attract  colonists  —  ;i  dociinieiit  which  might  give  jxiints  even  to 
Wall  Street  promoters  —  in  which  lie  called  attention  to  the  fact  that 
the  new  territory  was  "  in  the  s.ame  parallel  as  Palestine,  and  jjointed 
out  by  God's  own  choice."  This  prospectus  is  a  warrant  res])ectable 
in  its  anti(piily.  it'  not  in  its  modesty,  for  claiming  credit  for  Southern- 
ers for  all  that  is  achieved  within  our  parallels  of  latitude  around  the 
globe.  The  belt  of  earth  corresponding  to  the  South  makes  Moses, 
as  Bishop  Candler,  of  Georgia,  loves  to  say,  "one  of  the  first  Southern 
gentlemen."  It  takes  in  Greece,  and  gives  us  for  Southerners.  Homer, 
Plato,  Aristotle,  and  Alexander  the  Great.  It  takes  in  the  southern 
end  of  Italy,  and  a  slight  curve  of  the  line  permissible  to  one  who  is 
constructing  a  theory,  as  it  is  to  the  maker  of  a  railroad  map,  brings 
in  all  of  that  wondrous  land,  adding  to  our  glories  Csesar,  Virgil,  and 
l)aiue.  It  includes  the  birthplace  of  Napoleon,  though  we  do  not 
claim  Xapoleon  as  a  typical  Southern  gentleman.  It  comprises  Japan, 
and  while  some  people  have  been  mystified  at  the  marvelous  develop- 
ment of  the  Flowery  Kingdom,  we  have  had  the  key  to  the  fact  in  the 
advantage  of  its  southern  climate.  Great  Britain  is  a])parently  alien 
to  this  clime,  but  the  exception  is  only  apparent,  for  what  is  it  that 
has  made  possible  the  climate  and  thereby  made  possible  the  civilization 
of  England?  It  is  that  southern  gulf  stream,  that  "river  of  the 
ocean,"  as  your  own  Maury  has  called  it  —  "  that  wandering  summer 
of  the  seas  "  :  so  that  ICnglishmen  are  only  Southerners  at  long  distance 
—  a  theory  which  gives  its  Shakesi)eare.  Milton,  and  'remiyson, 
Chatham,   liurke.  and  Gladstone." 

In  the  ."^onlh.  then,  have  dwelt,  if  you  have  followed  me  in  this 
excursion  around  the  globe,  the  Hebrew  people,  whose  gift  to  the 
world  was  the  idea  of  holiness;  the  Greek,  whose  gift  to  the  world 
has  been  the  idea  of  art ;  the  Romans,  whose  gift  to  the  world  was 
the  idea  of  law,  and  the  Anglo-Saxons  (by  courtesy  of  their  hypothe- 
sis), whose  gift  to  the  world  is  liberty.  These  are  large  inclusions. 
I  admit.  1)ut  I  avoid  insistence  on  these  "  Alabama  claims,"  and  hasten 
on  to  one  conclusion  which  1  know  will  pass  unchallenged,  and  that  is, 
in  Dr.  .Mderman's  noble  vision  of  the  University,  and  1  trust  he  will 
forgive  me   for   saying  in   the  heart   and   sold   of  the   seer,  there   have 


36  INSTALLATION   OF  T}IE  FIRST   PRESIDENT 

entered  the  highest  and  best  of  all  the  inspirations  of  the  Hebrew 
ethical  ideal,  of  Greek  culture  and  beauty,  of  Roman  administration, 
and  Anglo-Saxon  freedom. 

Speaking  on  behalf  of  the  other  institutions  of  learning  in  the 
South.  I  wish  to  say  that  we  recognize  the  strategic  position  of  the 
University  of  \'irginia.  its  unique  situation,  its  peculiar  national  rela- 
tion, and  its  leadership.  Endeavoring  to  make  plain  the  spirit  of  this 
recognition,  I  have  recourse  to  one  of  the  noblest  orations  of  American 
eloquence,  an  address  delivered  by  Hon.  James  C.  Carter,  of  New 
York,  on  the  occasion  of  the  dedication  of  the  new  buildings  of  the 
University.  June,  1898.  I  may  say  here,  in  parenthesis,  that  the  Uni- 
versitv  of  X'irginia  has,  in  my  judgment,  received  no  more  splendid 
tribute  in  all  its  history  than  its  recognitii:)n  in  the  last  will  and 
testament  of  that  great  man.  who  stood,  in  the  esteem  of  his  brethren, 
at  the  head  of  the  American  bar.  In  concluding  his  great  address, 
Mr.  Carter  said : 

"And  the  ancient  Commonwealth  of  X'irginia  —  to  what  nobler 
object  can  she  extend  her  favor  and  support  than  the  building  up  upon 
this  historic  spot  of  a  great  university  wdiich  shall  be  at  once  the  home 
of  the  sciences  and  the  arts,  and  the  nursery  of  political  freedom? 
Outshining  all  her  sister  colonies  in  the  splendor  of  her  contribution 
to  the  galaxy  of  great  names  which  adorns  our  Revolutionary  history, 
how  can  she  better  perpetuate  that  glory  than  by  sending  forth  from 
her  own  soil  a  new  line  of  patriot  statesmen?  Xo  jealousies  will 
attend  her  efforts  to  this  great  end.  and  her  sister  States  would  greet 
with  delight  her  reascending  star  once  more  blazing  in  the  zenith  of 
its  own  proper  firmament." 

As  the  orator  was  speaking  for  \'irginia's  sister  States,  so  under- 
taking to  speak  for  the  educational  institutions  in  the  South.  I  would 
say,  "  no  jealousies.  Mr.  President,  will  attend  your  ettorts  '"  to  realize 
the  great  ideal  of  your  life  here.  Without  envy,  we  see  that  yours  is 
the  first  Southern  institution  in  whose  very  birth  national  inlluences 
were  at  work  in  that  unpretending  tavern  in  Kock  i-'ish  Cap.  where 
three  presidents  of  the  Cnited  States,  with  other  distinguished  men, 
met  to  prei)are  a  report  iqion  a  rounded  scheme  of  state  education. 
We  recognize,  too,  that  N'irginia  occu])ies  a  i)ec\diar  relation  to  the 
South  in  the  fact  that  it  was  on  her  territory  th:it  the  tremendous 
issues  of  the  war  between  the  States  were  fought  out  and  settled, 
thus  linkini--  the   verv   names  of  her  battlefields   with   the  traditions  of 


every 

So 

utliei 

■n  Slai 

bl.HKl 

of 

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irav(.'  s 

the    li 

resi 

de    t 

r.aditio 

Southern 

uni\ 

.-ersitii. 

versit 

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f  t  ;e( 

)rgia  \ 

^•;is   \irgin 

ia'.s  soil  ; 

doue 

that  dran 

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he  South, 

tluis  link 

ing  y 

our  name 

with 

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n    hoint'. 

The 

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was  chartert'd  in   1785. 


OK     IIIK    r.NIXKKSirV    OK    \II<(ilNI.\.  37 

^'()u  ixmik'hiIkt  with  |anu>  ( '.  (arur.  ulioni  I  ai^aiii  ijUoti.-,  that 
■■  tlK-  youth  wlio  art.-  hroui^ht  lui\-  should  study  not  ,,u\y  iIk-  prini-ipk-s 
of  lihcrly  and  free  i^ox  (.ruunui  as  taii},dn  hy  the  founder.  I)ut  the  new 
prohlenis  arising-  from  the  piixhi^ious  growth  of  tlie  nation  and  its 
rajtid  material  consohdation  ;  the  true  |irinei|»les  of  Ie,i^islati(»u.  and 
hy  uliat  methods  liherty  is  hest  reconciled  witli  order  and  witli  hr.v; 
teaching  thuu  to  i>refer  for  tlieir  enuntry  that  nnown  among  the 
nations  wliicli  comes  from  the  con-taut  (hsjday  of  tlie  love  of  peace 
and  justice."'  ^■ou  will  look  to  the  future,  for.  in  the  language  of  the 
poet  who  should  have  heeu  heir  to  the  laurel  of  Tenny.son 

"  He  loves  man's  uohle  memories  too  well 
Who  does  not  love  man's  uohler  ho])es  yet  more." 

For  the  fulfilment  of  this  great  ideal  the  man  and  the  hour  have 
met.     Providence  has  given  you  a  leader : 

"  One  who  counts  no  jjuhlic  toil  so  hard 

As  idly  glittering  pleasures ;  one  controlled 
By  no  moh's  haste,  nor  swayed  hy  gods  of  gold ; 

['rizin,<i'.  not  courting,  all  just  men's  regard; 
With  none  hut  Manhood's  ancient  Order  starred. 

Xor  crowned  with  titles  less  august  and  old 
Thau  human  greatness:  larg-e-brained,  limpid-souled  ; 

Whom  dreams  can  hurry  not.  nor  doubts  retard; 
I'.nrn.  nurtured  of  the  Penpk'.  living  still 

The  l'eoi)le's  life;  and  though  their  uohlesl  llower. 
In  nought  renii)\ed  above  them,  save  alone 

In  loftier  virtue    wisdom,  courage.  ])ower." 

FoK     SiSTEK     L'XIVEKSITIES     OF    THE     W'e.ST. 
I'.Y    I'KE.-sIUE.NT   U.    II.   JESSE.   OK   THE    rNIXEKSITY   OK    MISSOl  UI. 

I  bring.  Mr.  President,  greetings  from  the  I'niversity  of  Missouri 
to  my  aliiiii  inalcr.  the  L'ni\ersity  of  X'irginia — greetings  from  the 
Louisiana  Purchase  acipiired  by  Thomas  Jefferson,  to  this  Mother  of 
State  Universities  founded  by  him. 

Jefferson  was  the  greatest  prophet  of  public  education  that  our 
country  has  yet  producefl.  I'or  fifty  years  he  was  dominated  by  a 
passion  for  civil  and  religious  freedom  through  rejiublican  institutions, 
and  by  a  passion  for  public  education  in  common  schools.  an<l  in  l^tate 
universities. 

For  a  season,  at  least,  Mr.  TetYerson's  ideas  in  behalf  of  education 


38  INSTALLATTOX   OF   THE   FIRST   PKESIDENT 

(lid  not  l)car  imuii  fruit  in  the  Old  Dominion,  hut  the  yield  from  them 
was  magnihcent  in  the  daughters  of  Airginia  heyond  the  Alleghany 
^Mountains.  As  every  student  of  history  knows,  N'irginia  ceded  to  the 
Federal  Government  most  of  the  land  embraced  in  the  "  Northwest 
Territory" — the  vast  region  lying  north  of  the  Ohio  River,  east  of 
the  Alississippi.  south  of  Canada,  and  west  of  the  Alleghany  AIoiui- 
tains. 

In  1803,  Ohio,  \'irginia"s  latest  daughter  from  the  West,  knocked 
for  admission  into  this  sisterhood  of  States.  Jefferson  was  at  that 
time  President  of  the  United  States.  Congress  imposed  upon  (;)hio 
certain  conditions  which  she  must  faithfully  observe  before  being 
admitted  into  the  Union ;  and  with  these  two  conditions  were  two 
large  grants  of  land,  one  for  the  endowment  of  what  ultimately  becajiie 
a  State  imiversity.  This  magnificent  policy  in  regard  to  public 
education,  established  under  the  presidency  of  JefTerson.  has  been 
pursued  by  our  country  in  the  admission  of  Western  States  for  over 
one  hundred  years.  If  we  except  West  Virginia  and  Texas,  no  State 
from  the  crest  of  the  Alleghany  Mountains  to  the  shores  of  the  Pacific 
Ocean  for  102  years  has  been  admitted  into  the  Union  without  pledging 
the  support  of  its  people  to  common   schools  and   State  universities. 

And  in  these  later  days  this  policy,  so  to  speak,  this  policy  first 
established  by  Jefferson,  has  stretched  its  wings  beyond  the  confines 
of  our  continent,  and  touched  with  pinion  tii)s  our  island  possessions 
in  the  eastern  and  western  seas,  ^^'e  therefore,  who  believe  in  public 
schools  and  State  universities,  and  esi)ecially  the  ])eoi)le  of  the  West, 
may  well  cry  unto  him  as  the  lesser  proj)hets  of  old  cried  ever  unto 
the  greater.  "  My  father,  my  father,  the  chariots  of  Israel  and  the 
horsemen  thereof. ""  P'or  verily  unto  our  Israel  of  j)ul)lic  education, 
from  kindergarten  to  State  university,  Jefferson  has  been  as  a  squad- 
ron of  armed  chariots  and  as  a  legion  of  mailed  horsemen.  He  has 
been   father   also   of   ]:)ublic   schools   and    Slate    uni\-ersities   beginning 


with  Ohio  and  stretching  out  to  the  shores  of 

the   Pacific  Ocean. 

Compelled,  rninlly.  against  his  will,  to  ab: 

mdon  the  iilea  of  public 

schools   in    Virginia,   Jefferson    still   struggled 

for   the   Last   twenty-ti\e 

years  of  his  life   with  longue  and  with  ])en  ai 

id  with   zeal   for  a  great 

State  university.     Time   fails  me  to  tell   you  i 

.■\eii   brielly   of  his   ideal 

of  higher  education. 

Let  me  call  yoiu"  attention  to  the  fact  thai 

the  best  seats  of  leani- 

ings   on    earth    in    JelTerson's    day    consisted    ( 

)f    deparliiienls    of    Law. 

Me<licine.  Theology,  an.l  Philosophy,      lie  had 

no  ])in'cedenl  in   l'Airo;)o 

or   in    .Xnu'rica   for  going  beyond   this   concent 

r.-ited    (|u;i(lri\iuiii.      lint 

these  de])arlmenls,   important    as  they   are.   rej 

ireseiited   but    a    lithe   of 

OF    THE    rNl\i:US|TY    Ol'    \Il«;iNI.\.  39 

the  inslruotion  which  Mr.  UlTiTson  iilaminl  hew.  \'nr  i-x;mii)K-, 
without  the  pixoctk-iu  tlurcfor  amuii}^  institiilious  tlu-ii  (.•xisiins^  in 
Anu'rioa  and  luiropc.  In-  advocated  instriiolitm  in  the  ""  use  of  tools." 
and  in  'reclniical  I'hilosophy, —  or.  as  wc  sliould  say  now,  in  Manual 
Training;  and  in  l-ln.ifinccring.  To  liie  (hsniay  of  c(hicators.  he  hiid 
out  here  courses  in  Aijricuhure.  HorticuUure,  X'eterinary  Surgery. 
and  in  Mihtary  Science.  .XHl  until  1S62  did  our  country  finally  realize 
that  a  Cdlleye  of  .\gricidtine.  enihracing  also  the  Science  of  Warfare, 
might  he  added  to  a  great  university  without  utterly  tlcstroying  its 
dignity.  It  was  liere  among  these  Ragged  mountains  he  ])leaded  for 
courses  in  I'ine  Art.  and  in  Tools,  in  Architecture.  "  (  ivil.  Military, 
and  Xaval."  .\nd  schools  of  Commerce.  Manufacture,  schools  of 
Statesmanship,  and  Diplom.'icy  he  would  iiave  estahlished  here  when 
the  nineteenth  century  was  yet  in  its  teens  had  \'irginia  only  heart- 
ened unto  his  advice.  Xor  did  he  forget  to  plead  for  the  "Theory 
of  Music."  Indeed,  there  is  scarcely  a  large  division  of  learning  that 
has  been  added  within  the  past  one  hundred  years  to  any  considerable 
college  or  university  in  this  country  that  Jefferson  did  not  clearly 
outline  as  a  part  of  his  ideal  State  University  of  Virginia :  and  I  can 
not  find  a  department  for  which  he  pleaded,  saving  only  a  School  of 
Manufacture,  that  has  not  subsequently  been  adopted  in  more  than 
one  American  institution  of  unquestionable  renown. 

Indeed.  Engineering,  for  example,  has  been  develoi)ed  in  the 
Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology,  far  beyond  that  "  Technical 
Philosophy  "  which  Jefferson  had  in  mind,  and  so  with  everything  else. 
But  of  what  other  man  in  the  hi.story  of  the  human  race  can  it  be  said 
that,  standing  on  the  threshold  of  a  period  of  rapid  change,  he  forecast 
the  development  of  higher  education  for  a  century  of  time? 

The  University  which  he  finally  founded  here  in  the  twilight  of 
his  days  was  but  a  i)art  of  that  institution  which  he  had  fancied:  never- 
theless, in  spite  of  all  its  shortcomings,  for  the  sjjace  of  fifty  years  it 
was  perhaps  the  foremost  seat  of  learning  on  this  continent.  Rut 
when,  in  1876.  the  Johns  Hopkins  opened  its  doors,  then  for  a  season, 
at  least.  "  the  sceptre  departed  from  Judah  and  a  law-giver  from 
between  his  feet."  Then  arose  among  our  .American  imiversities  that 
fierce  struggle  for  i)re-eminence  which  for  thirty  years  has  raged 
Xorth  and  South,  and  East  and  West. 

It  may  well  be,  Mr.  President,  that  beginning  from  today  there 
shall  yet  come  an  era  of  rapid  growth  anrl  expansion  to  this  Mother 
of  State  Universities,  the  daughter  of  Thomas  Jefferson.  It  may  he 
that  ere  long  his  vision  shall  yet  be  fulfilled  here  in  a  full-orbed  uni- 
versity, the  embodiment  of  all  that  he  hoj)ed  for  and  of  all  that  has 
been  achieved  in  higher  education  in  our  country  in  a  century  of  time. 


40  INSTALI.ATIOX   OF  THE   FIRST   PRESIDENT 

The   All-Gracious  God  grant  that  this  come  to  pass  quickly  for  the 
repose  of  his  soul  who  was  father  unto  the  University  of  \'irginia. 

Long  ago  the  Prophet  went  up  from  among  his  disciples.  His 
mantle,  in  mid-air  long  suspended,  as  it  were,  seems  to  have  fallen 
upon  your  shoulders.  ]\Ir.  President.  ]\Iay  a  double  portion  of  his 
spirit  be  upon  you  ! 

INAUGURAL  ADDRESS  BY  PRESIDEXT  ALDERAIAX. 

Eighty-seven  years  ago,  the  Commonwealth  of  A'irginia,  inspired 
by  the  genius  of  Thomas  Jefferson,  guided  by  the  patient  good  sense 
of  Joseph  Cabell,  and  heartened  by  the  encouragement  of  James  Madi- 
son and  James  Monroe,  laid  the  foundation  of  this  University,  and 
dedicated  it  consciously  to  freedom  for  mind  and  soul,  to  desire  for 
knowledge  and  truth,  and  to  solemn  faith  in  the  justice  and  slow 
progressiveness  of  a  democratic  society.  ]Men  of  English  and  Scotch- 
Irish  breeding  long  settled  on  the  soil  of  the  State,  had  evolved  a  free 
and  forceful  society  of  gracious  charm  and  distinction,  and  leadership 
in  the  republic  then  belonged  to  Mrginia  through  the  rare  greatness 
of  her  sons. 

Out  of  her  social  conditions  had  come  the  spirit  that  called  for 
revolution  ]n  voices  singularly  clear  and  sweet.  Erom  her  indepen- 
dent life  had  arisen  the  forces  that  clothed  in  noble  phrase  the  reasons 
for  revolution ;  that  guided  victoriously  the  legions  of  war ;  that  bore 
just  part  in  the  shaping  of  the  Constitution,  so  compact  of  high  sense 
and  tragic  compromise :  that  interpreted  its  spirit ;  that  widened 
colonial  vision  from  ])rovincialism  to  eni])ire ;  that  fixed  faith  in 
average  humanity  as  the  philosophy  of  a  new  civilization 
set  the  framework  of  the  great  poptilar  experiment  in 
imperishable  stren-gth  and  beauty. 

The  illustrious  man  who  inspired  this  foundation  h 
honor  here.  Here  he  lived,  here  they  laid  his  mortal  Ixxly 
dwells  in  ceaseless  energy  his  innnortal  spirit.  Put  Thomas 
like  ( ieorge  Washington,  is  a  world  name  and  a  world  1 
phrases,  on  the  li])S  of  aspiration,  stand  everywhere  as  a  r 
a  stmiibling-block  to  tyranny  and  op]M-ession.  I  lis  ideals,  f 
ing  in  all  lands,  have  given  energy  and  reality  to  the  i 
movement  of  ilu'  modern  age  in  l"'uro])e  and  America.  '!"( 
versity  Thomas  JelTerxin  is  something  more  than  a  philoso|)hy.  or  a 
figure  in  a  pan.lheon.  lie  is  a  friend,  a  founder,  a  father.  Xo 
university  in  the  world  —  not  Rologna,  or  El  Ashar.  or  ()xford.  or 
Prague  —  is  so  inlimalely  associated  with  so  innnortal  a  name.  'I'o 
us  he  inhabits  his  hiiih   hill   forexer,  an   unwearied,   versatile,   mvriad- 


and  that 

forms    of 

.s    eternal 

and  here 

Jefferson, 

i-ce.     His 

■buke  and 

ir  spread- 

emocratic 

this  Uni- 

()|-    TlllC    INlVKKSirV    Ol     \IKlilNl.\.  4I 

luiiuk'd  old  man.  aciiiiaiiiti'd  wiih  i^lory  and  W\\i\\  station,  a  smile-  of 
taitli  forever  on  his  lips,  a  passion  for  fri-t-dom  forever  al  his  lu-arl. 
knowing;  men  deei)ly.  and  yet  hclieving  in  them  and  havinj;  patience 
with  them;  suhjecting  everythin<j,  with  thontfhtful  radicalism,  to  the 
test  of  their  advancement;  watching  with  patient  eyes  the  slow  rising 
walls  of  this  University  for  their  training,  and  connting  that  fonn<lation 
the  greatest  in  the  snm  of  liis  \  asi  iiunian  achievement. 

Horn  thus  of  the  iniion  of  human  enthusiasm  and  civic  imi)ulse. 
the  Tniversiiv  of  \irginia  seems  to  me  llie  first  deliheratc  gift  of 
democratic  iilealism  to  the  nation  an<l  century,  lliough  three-score  and 
seven  institutions  had  preceded  it  in  the  national  life,  owing  their 
origin  to  the  great  historic  causes  of  religious  zeal,  jjrivate  heneficence 
and  high  community  impulses  for  wisdom  and  guidance. 

In  our  satisfaction  that  we  stand  so  impressively  as  an  ex])ression 
of  the  national  mind  toward  political  self-direction  let  us  not  forget 
the  debt  that  we  owe  to  the  great  forces  that  had  already  huilded  the 
pioneer  American  institutions,  out  of  which  had  come  the  inspiration 
for  Lexington  and  Vorktown,  the  C  ontinental  Congress,  and  the  Con- 
stitutional Convention.  In  particular,  let  us  not  forget  the  religious 
motive  that  gave  sacredness  and  moral  direction  to  our  ideals,  that 
held  us  to  the  faith  ihril  man's  relation  to  God  is  the  supreme  essence 
of  human  culture,  and  that  admonishes  us,  day  by  day,  that  "through 
wisdom  is  an  house  builded,  and  by  understanding  it  is  established, 
and  by  knowledge  shall  the  chambers  be  filled  with  all  i)recious  and 
])leasant  riches." 

Universities  stand  both  as  servants  and  as  symbols  of  the  spiritual 
insight  and  the  social  needs  of  their  epochs.  The  Greek  peoples 
studied  philoso])hy  because  the  need  of  their  time  was  ethical.  The 
Englishman  is  nilent  upon  the  getting  of  gener.d  culture,  because  his 
need  is  for  the  man  of  breadth  and  cultured  will.  In  the  second  decade 
of  llie  rei)ui)lic.  jxipular  thought  centered  upon  the  rights  of  man  and 
the  bounds  of  political  freedom.  The  statement  of  the  purpose  in  the 
founding  of  the  University,  therefore,  drawn  up  by  the  same  hand 
that  had  drawn  up  the  Declaration  of  .\nierican  Indci)endence.  while 
reflecting  this  mood  of  the  age.  passed  beyond  it  with  a  daring  com- 
prehensiveness that  marks  our  founder  as  a  master  of  foresight  and 
interpretation.     "  This  University  shall  exist,"  said  Jefferson. 

"(i)  To  form  the  statesmen,  legislators,  and  judges,  on  whom 
public  prosperity  and  individual  hai)])i-ness  are  .so  much  to  depend  : 

'•(2)  To  expounfl  the  principles  and  structure  of  government,  the 
laws  which  regulate  the  intercourse  of  nations,  those  formed  numici- 
pally  for  our  own  government,  and  a  sound  s])irit  of  legislation  which, 
banishing  all   unnecessarv   restraint   on    individual   action,   sh.nll    leave 


42  INSTALLATION    OF  THE   FIRST    PRESIDENT 

US  free  to  do  whatever  does  not  violate  the  e(|ual  rights  of  another ; 

"(3)  To  liarmonize  and  promote  the  interests  of  agriculture,  man- 
ufactures, and  commerce,  and  by  well  informed  views  of  political 
economy,  to  give  a  free  scope  to  the  public  industry ; 

"(4)  To  develop  the  reasoning  faculties  of  our  youth,  enlarge  their 
minds,  cultivate  their  morals,  and  instill  into  them  the  precepts  of 
virtue  and  order ; 

"(5)  To  enlighten  them  with  mathematical  and  physical  sciences, 
which  advance  the  arts  and  administer  to  the  health,  the  subsistence 
and  comforts  of  human  life; 

"(6)  And,  generally,  to  form  them  to  habits  of  reflection  and 
correct  action,  rendering  them  examples  of  virtue  to  others  and  of 
happiness  within  themselves." 

Not  since  John  ^lilton  had  declared  that  to  be  "  a  compleat  and 
generous  education  which  fits  a  man  to  perform  justly,  skilfully  and 
magnanimously  all  the  offices,  both  public  and  private,  of  peace  and 
war,"  had  there  been  put  forth  such  a  classic  statement  of  educational 
purpose,  and  as  only  he  who  could  draw  the  bow  of  Ulysses,  could 
realize  the  Aliltonic  ideal,  so  all  the  constructive  thinking  and  piled-up 
wealth  of  succeeding  generations  have  left  unattained  the  Jeffersonian 
programme.  In  its  academic  structure  and  in  the  scope  and  grouping 
of  its  work.  Jefferson  had  spiritual  sight  of  the  modern  American 
university,  even  now  but  dimly  taking  shajjc  out  of  the  needs  of  a 
new  society,  the  efforts  of  countless  men  and  unmeasured  power,  as 
our  greatest  intellectual  achievement.  His  revolutionary  mind  put 
aside  the  English  college  model  as  the  i)roper  force  for  training  the 
American  democrat,  with  its  exclusive  tradition  of  humanistic  culture, 
and  the  formalism  of  the  English  country  gentleman,  though  he  was 
broad  enough  to  recognize  the  wisdom  of  hrdls  of  residence  and  the 
connnunal  life  therein,  which  the  bjiglish  had  evoKed.  and  which  they 
believe  has  contributed  to  produce  the  ty])e  of  man  who  has  wideneil 
the  arch  of  the   l)ritish   l^mpire. 

I'residiMil  l'"Jiot  a  great  modern  master  and  interpreter  of  educa- 
tional method  and  purpose,  has  recentl\-  declared  th;it  there  are  three 
indispensable  .'iltributes  of  a  true  university:  JM-eedom  in  the  choice 
of  studies;  o])])ortunitv  to  win  distinction  in  s|)eci;d  liui's  ot  study:  a 
discipline  which  im])oses  on  each  in(li\i(lu;il  the  i-esi)onsil)ility  for 
forming  his  own  habits  and  guiding  his  own  conduct. 

Our  great  dreamer  seized  just  these  three'  essentials,  and  ujion 
tlu'in  sha])ed  the  life  of  the  University  of  X'irginia.  ;is  necessar\-  con- 
ditions. ;il  a  lime  when  they  were  not  only  unreali/ed.  bul  miini;igint. d 
in  Ann-ricaii  educal  ion.al  pr;ictice.  To  this  .absolulely  right  foumlation 
are  duv  the  just  claims  that  here  began  the  lirsl  real  Americ;in  uni\er- 


(11-    TlIK    rNUKKSIlY    Ol-    \IK(,INI\.  43 

sily.  ami  the  t'ir>t  \vli(>U'-lKan(.'tl  cxix-riiiKiu  with  iIk-  elective  principle, 
and  the  interesting  resnlt,  that  there  lias  always  been  a  real  nniversity 
at  Charlottesville.  In  spite  of  meagre  e(|uii)inent.  though  at  its  hirth 
it  was  ])rol)al)ly  tlie  nio^l  liherally  planned  institution  of  the  country. 
in  spite  of  in^ulticicnl  preparatory  training  at  times  for  its  students; 
in  .si)ite  of  restricted  scope  and  inaliility  lo  welcome  into  the  circle 
of  lil)eral  arts  the  growing  mass  of  new  studio,  the  imiversity  spirit 
has  always  informed  our  life  —  a  spirit  that  heheld  the  scholar's  life 
as  a  fair  and  fruitful  thing,  hegot  in  xoulh  a  desire,  not  only  to  acquire. 
but  to  add  somewh.it  to  tlie  sum  of  knowledge,  and  evolved  a  method 
of  intensive  tliorouglnu's>  that  yieltled  knowledge  of  how  truth  may 
he  won. 

Tile  character  of  an  institution  i.s  the  resultant  of  its  ideals  and 
of  the  social  forces  that  cry  out  to  it  for  direction.  The  tirst  three 
decades  in  the  life  of  this  university,  like  the  lirst  three  in  the  life  of 
man.  forever  tixed  its  character.  The  revolutionary  dynasty  had 
])assed  away,  their  battle  for  equality  and  human  sympathy  securely 
won.  A  young  repulilic.  its  concept  of  democracy  suddenly  shifted 
from  sovereignty  to  onmijiotence.  stood  iq)  before  the  world,  lacking 
the  instinct  of  unity,  virile  and  wayward  in  its  confident  strength. 

Steam  and  in\enti\e  genius  touched  its  heart  with  desire  and 
pointed  the  way  for  material  advancement.  A  vast  untouched  emjiire 
beckoned  adventurous  spirits  from  all  lands  to  enterprise  and  con(|uesl. 
There  was  brewing  the  storm  of  a  great  argument  as  to  the  nature  of 
this  I'nion.  made  necessary  by  the  silence  and  indecision  of  the  Con- 
stitution, and  made  inuninent  by  the  ])resence  of  a  vast  human  ])rohlem 
in  economics  beijueathed  to  us  by  tlie  industrial  need  and  moral 
callousness  of  ages  past.  Men  in  .\merica  have  never  been  so  much 
in  earnest  about  vital  things  as  they  were  in  those  days.  Their  hearts 
were  touched  with  fire  and  their  very  lives  did  not  appear  to  thcni  so 
indispensable  as  their  ideas.  The  passion  of  the  time  was  a  passion 
for  principle  and  loyalty.  The  ajititude  of  the  time  was  for  the  build- 
ing of  States.  There  was  no  ro(jm  in  high  places  for  the  cynic,  the 
idler,  the  self-seeker.  Cleared  of  human  weakness  and  hot  tempt  r. 
one  sees  in  these  sad.  earnest  years  a  time  of  single-mindedness  and 
sincerity  of  the  ujjlifted  heart,  and  of  steadfast  gazing  upon  the  heights 
of  honor  and  duty,  and  tlK\  must  iver  remain  the  e])ic  j)erio(l  of  the 
struggle  of  deir.ocracy.  under  crushing  difficulties,  after  self-conscious- 
ness and  unity  of  f)urpose. 

True  wisdom  guided  the  selection  of  the  formative  men  who  came 
here  to  teach,  whether  from  Europe  or  .\merica,  for  they  were  high- 
statured  men  and  great  teachers,  as  well  as  scholars,  evoking  enthu- 
siasm for  letters  in  their  disci])les.  setting  high  .and  necessary  standards 


44  IXSTALLATIOX    OF  THE   FIRST   PRESIDENT 

of  scholarship  in  tlic  laiui.  and  leaving  liehiiul  them  an  enduring  educa- 
tion of  sweet  and  vital  memories.  Dunglison,  Emmet,  Tucker,  Cabell. 
Rogers,  Ciessner  Harrison,  Davis,  McGuffey,  Courtenay.  \'enable. 
Minor,  to  mention  only  some  of  the  dead.  The  mere  intonation  of 
their  names,  each  a  unit  of  power,  of  sacrifice,  and  of  service,  is  the 
best  celebration  of  their  fame  my  tongue  can  fashion.  The  old  grad- 
uate here  recalls  men,  not  buildings.  When  he  accounts  for  his 
measure  of  virtue,  he  calls  the  roll  of  his  old  teachers,  as  Marcus 
Aurelius  did,  long  ages  ago.  on  the  l)anks  of  the  Danube.  Indeed, 
the  distinction  of  this  life  has  been  the  contact  of  the  individual  with 
the  great  teacher. 

The  youth  who  came  here  to  learn  were  such  youth  as  such  times 
breed.  Thev  were  heedless  of  much  that  is  heeded  now.  But  they 
were  afire  with  the  impulses  of  their  generation.  There  dwelt  in  them 
the  root  of  a  deep  seriousness,  an  earnest  ambition  for  service  to  the 
State,  and  a  calm  faith  in  the  power  of  the  cultured  will  and  the 
honorable  life.  It  was  the  golden  age  of  education  in  the  Southern 
States  —  the  high  water  mark  of  individual  effort  in  behalf  of  the 
training  of  ])icked  youth.  "  Studies  were  blooming  and  minds  awaken- 
ing." More  than  eight  thousand  young  scholars,  from  a  varied  terri- 
tory, passed  through  these  walls  between  1830-60  to  the  larger  life  of 
leadership  in  church  and  state,  as  cabinet  ministers,  jurists,  physicians, 
senators,  governors,  scholars,  preachers  and  great  cultured  gentle- 
men. The  sjjirit  of  the  time  sent  most  of  them  into  the  public  service, 
where  they  made  of  politics  a  lofty  profession,  the  tradition  of  which 
informs  and  ennobles  American  political  life  today.  But  they  may  be 
found  all  along  the  wide  lines  of  life,  finding  eternal  beauty  in  form, 
like  Poe  ;  searching  the  Arctic  seas,  like  Kane;  joining  Xew  England's 
scholars  in  the  great  movement  which  In-ought  ( iermanic  scholarshi]) 
to  our  shores;  seeking  and  serving  God,  like  ]')r(Xidus  and  Dudley;  or 
vielding  up  their  lives  in  righteous  consecration  on  the  b.attle's  edge. 

(  )ut  of  the  inter-ijlav  of  such  forces,  in  a  time  of  such  intensity 
and  i)ersonality,  was  won  the  intimate  character  of  the  L'niversity  of 
Virginia.  (  )ne  does  not  have  to  search  for  this  institutional  character 
as  for  something  elusive  and  sul)tle.  It  shines  out  before  the  face  of 
the  stranger  in  five  clear  jjoints  of  light  : 

A  sympathetic  imderstanding  of  deniocracv  as  a  working  hypothe- 
sis of  life,  guaranteeing  to  every  man  a  chance  to  realize  the  best  that 
is  in  him. 

.\n  absolute  religious  freedom,  combined  with  wide  and  \it.d 
religious  op]>ortunities. 

An  a])peal  lo  the  best  in  young  men,  rc-sulting  in  the  crration  of 
a  student  public  o])inion  and  a  student  system  of  honor,  which  en<lo\\ed 


<)!•      rilK     IMX  KUSl  I'V    (ll-     \IUi,INIA.  45 

ihc  luiivcrsiiy  oi  ihc  pasl,  and  «,ii(lnu>  ihc  iiniv(.-r>ity  of  lo.laN  with  its 
richest  asset  of  reputation  ami  tame. 

A  high  standard  of  scliDlarship  rigidly  maintained,  in  an  air  of 
freedom  of  learning  and  freedom  of  teaching,  hcgetting  an  austere 
itleal  of  intellectual  thoroughness  and  honesty. 

A  conception  of  culture  as  a  compound  of  sound  karning  and 
gracious  conduct,  a^  an  inluTitancr  of  manhood  and  moral  will  won 
through  discipline  and  concpiesi.  and  as  a  capacity  to  deal  wilii  m<'n 
in  the  rough  work  of  the  world,  with  gentleness  and  simplicity. 

When  the  tempest  of  war  finally  fell,  it  was  this  spirit  that  ])os- 
sessed  the  twenty-five  hundred  ardent  young  souls  who  went  forth 
from  these  doors,  and  "on  war's  red  touchstone  rang  true  metal." 
When  the  tempest  ceased,  it  was  this  same  spirit  that  hred  in  the  men 
of  today  strength  and  patience,  and  a  genius  of  common  sense  that 
enahled  them  to  endure,  to  rehuild.  and  to  preserve  for  the  world 
things  the  world  should  not  lose.  1  pledge  myself,  under  ( lod.  to  do 
what  1  can  to  cherish  and  to  magnify,  come  good  days  or  ill.  this 
inspiring  university  character.  I  do  not  mean  that  there  should  not 
he  readjustment  here  —  change,  if  you  will  — the  growth  that  is  con- 
servative of  life  and  comes  out  of  the  tissues  of  ancient  strength.  A 
changing  society  means  a  changing  curriculum,  and  a  university  is 
society  shaping  itself  to  future  needs.  But  there  are  things  that  are 
eternal,  and  the  suhstance  of  this  ancient  s])irit  of  the  University  of 
\'irginia  is  one  of  them. 

The  Americans  of  the  Southern  States  are  the  only  .\mericans 
who  have  known  in  direct  form  the  discijjline  of  war  and  the  education 
of  defeat.  They  alone  of  this  unheaten  land  have  had  intimate  experi- 
ence of  revolution  and  despair.  The  University  of  \'irginia  as  their 
chiefest  servant,  has  shared  with  them  this  .stern  self-revealing  tute- 
lage. One  can  never  know  what  fair  visions  of  its  destiny  filled  the 
eye  of  Thomas  Jefferson.  He  heheld  it  guiding  wisely  the  local  life 
of  \'irginia.  He  heheld  it  as  a  training  jjlace  for  d-.-mocratic  leadershii) 
in  the  State  and  nation :  as  an  inspirer  to  the  great  Northwest  and 
Southwest,  as  those  States  swept  into  ordered  life;  hut  his  optimism, 
as  well  as  human  limitations,  shut  it  out  from  his  sight,  in  its  sacred- 
cst  relation,  as  the  source  of  light  to  a  land  left  in  darkness  and  silence 
hy  the  storm  of  war.  Is  there  in  academic  annals  such  a  story  of 
precious  privilege  and  fulfilment?  As  each  stricken  .State  found  henrt 
to  relight  its  ancient  torches,  its  sons  came  here  for  the  sacred  fire, 
where  patient  hands  had  kept  it  hurning,  or  to  our  sister  university  in 
the  valley,  where  the  great  soldier  sat  at  the  teacher's  desk,  revealing 
a  moral  splendor  more  touching  and  glorious  than  his  martial  fame. 
To  the  Southern  man  of  middle  life,  the  universitv  meant  this  Univer- 


46  INSTALLATIOX   OF  THE   FIRST   PRESIDENT 

sity.  The  world  has  deemed  this  a  genlle  and  loval)le  provinciahsni, 
Init  in  a  deep  sense  it  was  true,  for  here,  indeed,  was  the  home  of  his 
ideals,  and  henee  had  come  the  men.  the  methods,  the  reawakened 
educational  desire,  the  nohle  consolation  of  unweakened  spirit,  and 
even  amid  the  ravages  of  war,  the  unravaged  vision  of  arts  and 
philosophy. 

Secure,  therefore,  in  the  dignity  of  an  intellectual  authority  which 
it  has  earned,  and  a  national  service  which  it  has  rendered,  enriclied 
by  the  currents  of  a  gentle  civilization  flowing  about  it  for  generations. 
protected  by  the  love  and  veneration  of  thousands,  seated  among  hills 
of  quiet  strength  and  beauty,  and  stamped  upon  its  outward  form  with 
''  the  glory  that  was  Greece,  and  the  grandeur  that  was  Rome,"  if  I 
may  use  the  very  words  of  its  most  gifted  child  of  genius  and  song, 
this  University  faces  the  future,  which  summons  you  and  me  to  pre- 
serve and  strengthen,  as  it  summoned  the  founders  to  conceive  and 
create. 

The  glory  of  Jefferson  was  his  enthusiasm  for  the  future.  It  was 
the  prophecy  in  democracy  that  charmed  his  spirit.  A  noble  past 
might  be  a  dangerous  thing,  he  thought,  if  it  brought  contentment  with 
a  com])lacent  ])resent  or  an  uncertain  future,  and  there  was  no  splendor 
in  it  for  him.  if  it  did  not  urge  men  onward.  It  has  been  given  to  this 
University  to  render  wide  and  definite  service  for  political  freedom 
and  human  culture  and  character  in  an  age  of  national  development 
and  trial.  Is  there  not  equal  work  for  it  to  do  in  behalf  of  spiritual 
freedom  and  economic  independence  and  justice  in  an  age  of  social 
expansion  and  experiment?  Is  it  not  just  as  much  a  pioneer  in  the 
latter  struggle  for  a  larger  life,  as  it  was  when  it  came  from  the  h;nid 
of  its  founder  in  the  generous  fervor  of  a  new  hoi)e  ?  There  is  still  a 
democracy  to  be  ser\-ed.  with  its  dreams  unrealized,  its  ideals  changed, 
its  jjoint  of  \-iew  advanced  The  democracy  of  the  young  century  was 
a  theory  of  politics  and  philosoi)hy.  The  democracy  of  toda\-  is  society 
fused  bv  the  divine  energv  of  the  ^Master,  seeking  nnitv  and  develop- 
ment, a  connnon  heart  and  conscience.  If  some  of  its  earl\-  dreams 
have  faded  in  the  light  of  common  day.  it  is  because  economic  and 
social  questions  strike  deeper  than  issues  formal  and  ])olilical.  and  for 
their  solution  make  demand  les^  uimn  emotions  and  impulst's.  and  more 
U])on  sound  knowledge,  ordered  thinking.  ;ind  constrncli\-e  ini;iginalion 
The  craving  of  its  ])resent  mood  is  for  op])ortunily  to  share  in  the 
fullness  of  life,  to  break  u])  its  masses  into  units,  to  sift  its  units  for 
hidden  treasures,  and  to  niter  into  the  liner  inheritances  of  the  civiliza- 
tion which  it  has  hel|)ed  to  build.  The  gre.'it-grandsons  of  the  men 
who  fancied  the  sulTrage  wiuild  bring  I'topi.'i  now  set  their  hearts 
more   upon   the    wages   of   labor,    the   nature   of   ca])ilal.   good   country 


OK    THE    LNIVEKSl  IV    Ol     \1K(.IM.\.  47 

roads,  the  oiiricliiiit.'iit  dI"  rural  Iil\-,  tlu-  villas^e-  lilirary,  the  roim-ly 
schoolhousc,  the  iiniinpcdcd  patli  to  some  such  spot  as  tlii>. 

Tlicro  is  still  the  repuhlie  to  he  served,  veiierahle  nuw  .  fur  all  its 
hrillianev,  and  literally  made  over  in  outward  t'orm.  in  spiritual  pur- 
l)<)se.  and  in  industrial  cajjacity  since  1X30.  Who  >hall  leaven  this 
tunudl  (if  peoples  with  soherncss  and  simplicity  and  Americanism? 
What  is  Americanism  coming  to  signify  spiritually  to  the  world? 
Shall  it  he  alone  ])ride  of  power,  ])assion  for  achievenu'nt  genius  ''or 
self-indulgence,  mad  waste  ni  energy,  as  in  the  ant  hill,  or  shall  it 
mean  steadfast  justice,  respect  for  law,  sol)er  discijiline.  resjionsilile 
citizenship,  and  moral  sturdincss  ? 

This  University  is  just  one  of  the  circle  of  American  institutions, 
seeking  to  guarantee  the  right  answer  to  these  large  questions  of 
human  welfare.  A  sectional,  like  a  sectarian  university,  is  unthink- 
able, and  we  are  spiritual  neighbor  to  Harvard  and  Columbia,  to 
Michigan  and  Texas,  to  Oxford  and  Cambridge.  As  a  brief  answer 
to  the  vital  question.  What  sort  of  men  have  you  made?  1  may  reply, 
forty-seven  ])er  cent,  of  our  students  have  come  to  us  from  thirty-nine 
States  other  than  X'irginia;  five  hundred  of  our  alumni  have  preached 
the  gospel  ihroughout  the  world;  four  hundred  and  eleven  have  occu- 
pied chairs  in  one  hundred  and  fifty-one  universities  and  colleges  in 
thirty-three  States  and  four  foreigTi  countries, — fifty-seven  of  these 
being  elected  in  seventeen  .Xorthern  and  W^estern  States.  Our  .sons 
have  governed  twelve  States,  and  administered  supreme  justice  in 
seventeen  States;  one  hundred  and  twelve  of  them  have  enacted  laws 
in  the  Federal  Congress;  and  in  law.  medicine,  business,  and  engineer- 
ing a  host  of  them  are  serving  men  about  the  world. 

Tt  is  too  clear  to  call  for  proof,  however,  that  the  chief  allegiance 
of  this  University  is  to  X'irginia  and  to  its  natur.il  contributing  terri- 
tory. Its  elementary  duties  are  to  furnish  a  liberal  education  sub- 
stantialh-  free  to  the  vouth  of  X'irginia.  and  to  care  for  \irginia  and 
the  South  in  their  growing  life,  in  educational,  cultural,  economic 
directions.  If  there  be  a  question  touching  life  on  the  farm,  or  in  the 
factory,  in  institutional  development,  in  the  public  schools,  in  manu- 
facturing or  nuinicipal  ])rol)lems,  .some  intelligent  answer  should  issue 
from  the  University.  If  this  Union  .symbolizes  the  effort  of  freemen 
to  combine  freedom  and  justice  with  wealth  and  power,  the  most 
impressive  phase  of  this  effort  is  the  proud,  self-reliant  re-entrance  of 
the  South,  after  i.solation  and  submersion,  into  the  work  of  the  niotlern 
world,  without  loss  of  ancient  lovablencss.  anrl  with  access  of  modern 
vigor  and  mobility.  This  is  still  a  land  of  romanticism  and  |)er.sonality. 
of  conservatism  and  reverence,  of  loyalty  and  cai)acity  for  devotion, 
but  it  is  as  well  a  land  of  comnnmity.  jirogress.  and  social   sympathy. 


4^  IXSTAI.LATIOX    OF   THE   FIRST    PRESIDENT 

perceiving-  the  necessity  and  dignity  of  indnstrial  efficiency,  and  realiz- 
ing and  mastering  the  economic  forces  of  society.  It  has.  indeed, 
liegnn  an  economic  movement,  destined  to  revolntionize  its  life.  Dis- 
ciplined and  homogeneous,  our  educable  youth  are  reaching  up  into 
life,  through  sacrifice.  They  are  no  better  than  other  American  youth, 
but  God  has  been  good  to  them,  because  He  has  let  their  young  eyes 
see  life  as  duty  and  opportunity  and  not  as  pleasure,  and  the  republic 
needs  their  tempered  strength  and  their  (piality  of  soul  and  their  scorn 
of  dishonor.  Nowhere  in  the  world  are  there  more  difficult  and  dan- 
gerous domestic  problems.  Nowhere  in  the  world  do  both  nature  and 
man  ask  so  plainly  for  the  trained  hand,  the  trained  mind  and  the 
trained  will.  Everywhere  there  is  wealth  to  be  won  and  institutions 
to  be  molded  and  ideals  to  be  maintained,  and  a  giant  task  accomplished 
of  relating  in  democratic  life  a  master  race  and  freed  race  on  the  basis 
of  justice,  but  conformable  to  the  solemn  obligations  of  racial  growth 
and  of  an  unimpaired  civilization. 

Humanism  produced  the  man  of  culture,  and  his  peril  was  self- 
sufficiency  and  a  conception  of  culture  as  ornament.  Applied  science 
and  the  imperious  demands  of  commerce  have  produced  the  man  of 
efficiency,  and  his  peril  is  personal  barrenness  and  instinctive  greed. 
Our  country  needs  the  idealism  of  the  one  and  the  lordship  over  things 
of  the  other,  and  such  a  blend  will  be  the  great  citizen  whose  advent 
an  industrial  democracy  has  so  long  foreshadowed.  The  kind  of  work 
he  shall  do  in  the  world  is  immaterial.  He  shall  l)e  an  upward-striving 
man  who  wants  the  truth  and  dares  to  utter  it,  who  knows  his  own 
need  and  the  need  of  his  age,  who  counts  adaptability  and  toleration 
among  his  virtues;  who  insists  on  a  little  leisure  for  his  soul's  sake, 
and  who  has  a  care  whether  amid  the  warfare  of  trade,  or  in  the  quiet 
and  still  air  of  study,  for  the  building  of  things  ever  better  and  better 
al)Out  him.  Fashioned  by  the  sweep  of  genius  tin-ough  exjierience, 
great  citizens  may  come  who  have  never  seen  a  university,  but  univer- 
sities are  the  organized  efforts  of  monarchies  and  democracies  to  jiro- 
duce  such  types,  and  our  duty  is  to  perfect  the  organism  and  to  work 
and  ho])e. 

The  last  (juarter  of  the  ceiUury  has  witnessed  the  organization  of 
the  American  university,  and  the  jjartial  realization  of  its  tinal  form. 
The  next  quarter  of  a  centurv  will  set'  some  universities  with  the 
income  of  enq)ires.  and  a  i)ower  u])()u  wliieh  cities  and  .''itates  will  lean 
heavily  for  guidance.     This  new  education.al  form  will  conqirise  : 

(i)  The  College  of  Liberal  Arts— the  :u-adeniic  heart -which  has 
assimulated  scientific  studies  and  thereb\-  put  itself  in  touch  with  the 
meaning  of  the  age.  Its  function  will  be  to  receive  iinniatnrt'  youth 
in   an  atmo.sphere  of  i)roa(l   and    varied   associations,   in   contact    with 


OK    rut:    LMVEKSITY    UK    VIkClMA.  49 

wise  and  nolilc  lives,  and  to  oiler  iIkiu  siu-li  exp.-rii'nce  in  i-Mikinj,' 
manhood  and  capacity,  and  sucli  knowlcdf^c  of  man.  nature  and  spirit. 
lliat  tliey  shall  gain  power  to  enter  into  life  with  character,  enthusiasm 
and  conviction.  The  colle.^e  is  a  social  institution,  enlightenin;.,'  and 
guidingf  youth,  that  it  ina\   make  men  of  them. 

(J)  The  ("iraduate  School — the  academic  hrain — chargetl  with  the 
function  of  training  mature  and  liberally  educated  men  to  investigation 
and  scientitic  i)roductivoness.  Here  shall  he  gained  that  patience  aiul 
energy,  that  o])en-mindedness  and  sure  thinking,  that  intellectual  sin- 
cerity, that  have  l)elonged  to  all  the  i):ilhlin(lers  from  .\ristotle  to 
Pasteur,  ;uul  must  lielong  to  him  wlio  would  hro.idrn  the  wavs  .-md  en- 
large the  boundaries  of  thought.  ihe  advance  of  civilization  will 
rest  on  the  strength  of  this  school  and  through  its  work  alone  can  a 
university  hope  to  become  a  school  of  power,  binding  other  colleges  to 
it  in  loyalty,  and  not  only  responsive  to  tradition,  but  to  new  truth 
daily  apjiearing  in  the  life  of  man.  Here  the  (piiet  scholar  may  search 
out  tile  irulli  and  hold  it  aloft  for  men  to  see. 

(3)  The  I'rofessional  Schools — the  heart  and  brain  at  work  on 
life — as  varied  in  number  and  scope  as  society  is  complex,  seeking  to 
provide  the  world  with  the  best  skill  needful  for  its  growth,  and  so 
justly  related  to  the  whole  that  we  shall  escape  the  peril  of  the  illiberal 
and  uneducated  specialist. 

AH  this  shall  be  placed  in  a  setting  of  a  little  world  of  libr.aries, 
laboratories,  loan  funds,  fellowships,  mechanism  and  beauty,  and  the 
whole  vitalized  and  spiritualized  by  men  in  such  force  that  their  spirits 
shall  not  break  and  their  hopes  shall  not  die.  We  do  not  need  many 
such  universities  but  we  need  them  strong  and  in  the  right  ])laces.  The 
multiplication  of  weakness  by  weakness  yields  weakness  still.  The 
South  needs  them  to  ])rotect  its  real  reconstructive  era  from  the 
dangers  of  empiricism  industrial  dependence,  and  the  perils  that  beset 
character  in  all  democracies.  \'irginia  needs  such  an  university  to 
guarantee  that  educational  leadership  to  which  it  has  owed  its  great- 
ness for  two  generations,  and  to  light  its  ]);itli  to  that  ])oint  of  useful- 
ness and  power  which  General  Lee  .saw  in  the  dark  days,  when  he  said 
simi)ly:     "  Let  us  work  to  make  \'irginia  great  again." 

The  building  of  such  a  national  university  of  modern  type  in  the 
South  is  the  great  opportunity  to  benefit  the  republic,  now  offered  to 
the  wisdom  of  States  and  the  imagination  of  far-seeing  men.  There 
is  a  pre-supposition  of  vast  power  in  such  institutions,  .\merica  spends 
thirty  millions  a  year  in  maintaining  them.  Many  millions  a  year  are 
given  for  their  expansion.  The  States  of  the  Xorlhwest  Territory, 
much  of  which  was  formerly  \'irginia,  exi)end  six  millions  yearly,  and 
upon  less  than  four  or  five  hundred  thousand  a  year  one  can  not  be 


50  INSTALLATIOX   OF  THE   FIRST   PRESIDENT 

maintained.  ^loney  alone  can  not  make  such  an  university,  but  vast 
power  is  necessary,  and  though  it  bear  the  image  and  superscription 
of  Caesar,  there  is  an  alchemy  of  consecration  in  our  laboratories 
which  can  transmute  money  into  moral  force.  Mere  individual  genius, 
even  of  Plato,  or  x\belard,or  Arnold,  or  Hopkins,  can  not  make  such  an 
university,  though  God  pity  it  if  it  have  not  such  quality  of  soul  some- 
where in  its  life.  Prestige  will  not  suffice,  for  prestige  may  be  another 
term  for  epitaph,  if  isolated  from  continuing  power  to  serve  a  widen- 
ing field. 

Holding  fast  to  all  of  good  that  we  have,  let  us  discern  four  new 
paths  of  service  for  the  University  of  \'irginia.  First,  of  English  speak- 
ing statesmen,  ]\Ir.  Jefferson  perceived  the  meaning  of  education  as  an 
influence  upon  national  as  distinct  from  individual  development,  and  for 
forty  years  his  mind  played  constantly  around  three  lines  of  institu- 
tional reform  in  \'irginia — elementary  instruction  for  every  child,  in 
order  to  guarantee  citizenship,  to  elevate  economic  desire,  and  to  in- 
crease industrial  capacity ;  secondary  education,  or  more  education  for 
those  fit  for  it ;  university  education,  or  training  for  leadership. 

The  largest  social  task  of  this  university,  co-operating  with  all 
educational  forces,  is  to  strive  for  the  accomplishment  of  these  unreal- 
ized ideals.  Not  only  in  Virginia,  but  throughout  the  South  there  is 
enthusiasm,  growth  under  difficulties,  splendid  determination  and  prog- 
ress, and  individual  excellence ;  but  our  educational  systems  are  unor- 
ganized and  bear  somewhat  the  relation  to  what  they  will  finally 
become  that  the  old  volunteer  fire  companies  bear  to  the  organized  fire 
department.  Their  proper  co-ordination  will  come  as  a  result  of  com- 
munity effort  and  a  conception  of  educational  unity.  Education  is  one 
compact  interest  of  society,  and  no  one  part  can  be  profitably  studied 
alone,  as  no  individual  can  be  studied  isolated  from  his  fellows.  His 
cadaver  may  be  valuable  for  such  purposes,  but  not  his  personality. 
I  know  of  no  more  fruitful  field  of  inquiry  than  that  which  has  to  do 
with  the  relation  of  part  to  part  in  our  systems  of  education,  and  of  the 
intrinsic  relation  of  the  whole  to  state  and  church.  The  I'niversity  of 
Virginia  is  essentiallv  not  this  i)articular  Citv  of  Light  but  a  composite 
institution,  including  everv  scIk^oI  house,  academy,  dennminational 
college,  State  school — tied  together  in  a  union  of  sympathy  and  lu'I|)l"nl- 
ness,  and  it  somehow  must  become  this  or  confess  faihn-i\ 

The  adoption  of  the  mill  tax  idea  as  a  method  of  raising  revemie 
to  insure  unified  and  sta])le  educational  growth  is  the  contribution  of 
the  Mississi])pi  \'alley.  It  is  the  result  of  the  teachings  oi  JetTerson 
and  the  commf)n  sense  of  ])ioneers  and  ."^lale  ])uilders.  I  conunend  it 
to  our  law-makers  for  their  thoughtful  investigation,  for  nowhere  have 
tlie  dreams  of  Washington  and  the  hopes  of  Jefferson  a|i])roached  so 
nearl\-  to  realization  as  in  tliis  alert  and  unhindered  territor\-. 


OK    THE    INIVKUSITY    UK    \IK(iI  N  I  A.  5I 

\\  c  >lii>ultl  cluiisli  llu-  linpi.-  that  tlu-  linu-  will  (.•(Hiic  wlicii  the 
liighcr  iiistiiiuit)ii>  i>i  the  Stale  will  hi-  uiiili-d  in  uri^aiiic  union,  since 
local  pride  and  cntluisiasni  lia\  c  iknicd  u^  iihysical  unity.  Nor  sliouid 
the  reciprocal  obligations  he  lorgoiien  llial  exist  between  the  Stale  antl 
the  private  and  denominational  colleges,  chartered  by  the  State,  pro- 
tected by  its  laws,  educating  one-third  of  its  youth.  We  should  wel- 
come the  establishment  here  of  halls  and  dormitories  controlled  by 
them,  availing  themselves  of  the  oiiporiunities  of  the  University,  and 
if  this  he  inii)raclicahle.  we  slmuld  at  least  strive  without  ceasing  to 
banish  from  our  life  any  semblance  of  intercollegiate  hostility.  I,et 
co-operation  supplant  rivalry  in  the  service  of  nien.  This  jirobleni  of 
unification  is  as  difficult  as  it  is  inviting.  The  university  that  solves 
the  problem  holds  the  fiUiire.  The  fu-st  forward  stej)  would  be  the 
establishment  here  of  a  school  of  Education  of  such  power  that  its 
teachers  could  approach  this  and  other  problems  of  educational  states- 
manship with  insight  and  authority.  This  school  should  coni])rise  not 
only  tlie  philosopher.  Init  the  sociologist,  the  organizer  and  the  sym- 
pathetic publicist. 

Our  distinctive  contribution  to  American  life  has  been  political 
leadership.  A  necessary  condition  for  the  holding  of  this  position 
would  he  the  development  here  of  a  great  school  complementary  to 
law.  embracing  the  studies  classified  under  political  economy,  political 
science,  sociology  and  history.  These  are  no  longer  subordinate 
studies.  They  are  the  studies  that  enable  the  mind  to  reach  results, 
not  so  much  through  obstructive  criticism  as  through  ])rogressive 
understanding  of  the  soul  of  the  time  in  which  it  lives,  and  through 
insight  into  conditions  unfamiliar  to  daily  experience.  Men  tr.iined 
in  such  studies  get  the  enlightenment  upon  which  wise  .social  action 
must  be  based,  and  in  them  lies  the  hope  of  advance  in  .society. 

For  some  decades  the  intensest  expression  of  our  power  is  to  be 
along  industrial  and  scientific  directions.  The  application  of  the 
sciences  to  the  enrichment  of  lite  in  engineering,  in  agriculture,  in 
business,  in  manufacturing,  is  not  only  a  movement  inevitable  to  the 
national  development,  but  is  also  a  vitalization  and  emanci])ation  of  the 
liberal  studies.  In  the  jjast  five  years  the  growth  of  engineering 
students  over  those  enrolled  in  the  courses  in  letters  and  languages 
has  been  one  hundred  per  cent.  This  does  not  mean  materialism,  but 
is  simply  an  expression  of  economic  need.  Modern  comi)etitive  living 
needs  the  trained  man.  not  alone  in  law  anrl  medicine,  but  in  engi- 
neering and  in  the  great  arts  of  production  and  exchange.  It  is  the 
duty  of  society  to  master  the  means  for  the  production  of  wealth  as  a 
form  of  independence  of  the  world's  forces,  and  after  that  to  oppose 
moral  purpose  and  enlightened  conscience  to  the  suggestions  oi  greed 
and  the  seeking  of  fortune  for  fortune's  sake. 


52  INSTAIJ.ATIOX    OF  THE   FIRST   PRESIDENT 

Universities  that  have  a  clear  tradition  are  rare  and  fortunate. 
Our  clearest  tradition  is  the  tradition  of  culture  and  fellowship  with 
beauty  and  poetic  understanding.  It  is  not  a  tradition  to  lose  in  a 
world  where  business  is  king.  It  is  a  morning  spirit  nf)t  yet  nuniljed 
bv  sordid  or  cynical  impulses — still  lit  with  spiritual  charm  and  lifted 
above  enervation  and  self  seeking — a  stubborn  negation  of  Words- 
worth's fear : 

'■  The  world  is  too  much  with  us,  soon  and  late, 
Getting  and  spending,  we  lay  waste  our  power." 

I  would  give  this  tradition  added  richness  by  putting  it  to  work 
through  the  establishment  here  of  a  nobly  planned  school  of  luiglish 
Writing.  In  such  an  air  as  this,  rich  in  life  and  hope  and  ample 
manhood,  there  is  room  for  a  school  which  w(<uld  l)ring  men  together 
more  in  the  spirit  of  practical  artists  than  of  critics  or  analysts ;  a 
school  of  scholars  and  masters,  working  together  like  good  craftsmen, 
learning  from  each  other ;  competing  with  each  other,  producing,  offer- 
ing their  products  to  the  thought  of  the  world,  and  giving  the  training 
which  men  of  creative  instinct  get  by  working  together  under  the 
sharp  spur  of  life  and  the  just  pride  of  accomplishment.  The  power 
to  use  one's  language  clearly  and  persuasively  is  a  practical  gain, 
alone  worth  the  time  spent  in  college.  The  power  to  use  it  as  an  expres- 
sion of  life  and  emotion  is  the  power  to  enter  through  understanding 
into  that  realm  of  feeling  and  faith  where  dwell  love  and  liberty  and 
the  unseen  ideals  that  move  the  race  more  than  law  or  logic.  Why 
should  not  a  university  provide  for  productive  work  in  literature  on 
the  same  ample  jjlan  and  scope  with  which  it  ]M-ovides  for  scientific 
investigation  and  publication?  Will  not  citizenship  in  the  realm  of 
letters  come  soonest  to  him  who  seeks  to  make  than  to  him  who  seeks 
to  dissect  the  body  of  literature;  to  him  who  emphasizes  the  movement 
of  spirit  a])ove  the  phenomena  of  language? 

Whether  the  I'niversity  of  X'irginia  shall  realize  its  great  destiny 
rests  upon  the  decision  of  the  connnonweallh  of  \'irginia,  whose  civic 
life  it  has  energized  and  ennobled;  ui)on  the  will  of  its  alumni  whom 
it  has  invested  with  cultured  manhood;  and  ujion  American  citizen- 
ship, whose  ])ublic  s])irit  it  c-mbodies.  1  ba\e  emphasized  everywhere 
the  idea  of  service  due  from  the  fnixersity  to  the  State  and  1  shall  con- 
tiiuie  this  emphasis,   for   1   should  sin  against  the  mighty  dead   if   1   did 

^t^aight  forward  message  of 
diall  be  the  I'niversity  for 
inia.  (  Ireal  .States  care  for 
be   a   mark  of  greatness   in 


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OK    TIIK    INniCKSITV    ol"    XIKCIMA.  53 

States.  1  believe  tluit  lliis  Slate,  whieli  lia>  always  known  liow  to  aet 
broadly,  will  make  it  an  axiom  of  its  let^isjative  life  to  cherish  aii<l 
strengthen  its  chiefest  institution  in  i)roiMinion  to  income  and  pros- 
perity. 'Hie  I'liiversity  calls  to  her  sons  with  the  confidence  of  a 
niotlur  for  their  constructive  iielp.  and  they  will  heed  iicr  call  as  they 
have  iieeded  every  call  of  tdial  love  and  jiublic  diUy.  She  offers  to  men 
of  seiuinieiu  and  foresi<4ln  throiiobout  the  republic  the  privilege  and 
opportunity  of  an  incomparable  service.  .\n  additional  annual  incr)me 
of  $100,000  could  be  wisely  used  here.  We  need  men  here,  first  and 
foremost — great  scholars  and  teachers  to  reinforce  our  overburdened 
corps — and  books,  and  instruments,  and  buildings.  an<l  then  more  men. 

It  would  be  a  dull  and  senseless  s])irit  that  did  not  feel  the  sacred 
meaning  of  this  hour,  with  its  unspoken  suggestion  of  human  living 
and  human  dving.  of  patient  striving  and  of  dauntless  hope.  There 
is  no  despair  in  such  a  ta.sk.  There  is  simply  gratitude  to  ( iod  for 
opportunity  and  prayer  to  ( ".od  for  strength.  I  believe  in  the  essential 
idealism  of  the  republic,  in  its  dependence  upon  knowledge  and  train- 
ing, in  a  deep  and  heroic  simplicity  which  lies  at  its  heart,  safe-guard- 
ing it  forever  from  the  tyranny  of  mob  or  plutocrat.  Set  here  so 
faithfullv  for  everlasting  service,  this  University  seeks  its  share  of 
the  nation's  growth  and  its  portion  of  the  nation's  burden.  Like  the 
University  of  Berlin,  it  belongs  to  the  short  list  of  institutions  whicii 
have  scattered  the  despair  and  lightened  the  sorrows  of  a  great  people 
in  a  time  of  national  trial.  Shall  it  not,  like  the  University  of  Leyden. 
range  itself  also  in  the  justice  of  God,  among  the  great  schools  of 
national  rejoicing,  working  at  the  ta.sks  and  solving  the  problems  of 
an  era  welded  into  unity  by  common  sacrifice  and  thrilling  with  the 
prophecy  of  boundless  growth  and  triumphant  peace? 

To  the  absent  ones  whose  thoughts  turn  hitherward  to-day,  for 
love  of  abiHi  )iiatcr  and  belief  in  her  ideals.  1  send  the  message  of  her 
unbroken  loyalty  to  the  faith  that  the  scholar  shouM  be  a  patriot  and 
the  patriot  a  scholar,  and  that  .scholarly  patriotism,  exalting  country 
above  self,  rich  in  social  knowledge  and  .sym])athy.  unafraid  of  diOi- 
cultv  and  unashamed  of  sentiment,  is  the  noblest  offering  universities 
can  make  tf)ward  the  integrity  and  majesty  of  republican  citizenship. 

Benediction. —The  Kev.  Samuel  ( '.  Mitchell.  I'h  D..  Rich- 
mond, \'a. 

AT  .\i<;irr 

The  .students  assend)led  at  S:i5  ou  West  Range,  and.  receiving 
torches,  moved  in  procession  promptly  at  8:25  in  the  same  class  «»rder 
as  in  the  academic  procession  in  the  afternoon,  and  under  the  same 
marshals.      The   scene   on   the   lawn    was  brilliant,      .\fter   the   evolu- 


54  INSTALLATION   OF  THE   FIRST   PRESIDENT 

tions   there,    tlie    people    gathered   on    the    north    side    of   the    rotunda 
where  fireworks  afforded  a  dazzling  spectacle. 

A  1)anquet  in  the  rotunda  concluded  the  festivities.  Nearly  six 
hundred  guests  were  seated  at  tables,  arranged  in  concentric  circles 
on  the  floor  of  the  library,  and  at  scores  of  others  placed  in  the  alcoves 
and  galleries.  The  toastmaster  was  James  Pinckney  Harrison  of 
Danville,  \'a.,  \'ice-President  of  the  General  Alumni  Association. 
Sentiments  were  responded  to  Iw  Senator  John  W.  Daniel,  of  A'ir- 
ginia;  the  Hon.  Henry  T.  Kent,  of  Missouri:  President  Alderman,  of 
the  University  of  \'irginia  ;  Dr.  Randolph  H.  ]\lcKim.  of  Washington, 
D.  C. :  President  Angell,  of  the  University  of  [Michigan;  Professor 
Blewett  Lee.  of  Northwestern  University;  Dr.  C.  Alphonso  Smith,  ni 
the  University  of  North  Carolina,  and  some  others. 

[Form  cf  the  invitatiou] 

The  Jlsifors  and  faculty 

of  the 

Uiiii'crsity    of    Jlr<^iiiia 

request  the  honor  of  your  presence 

at    the    i list aUat ion    of 

Eckein  .-Anderson  Alderman,  D.C.L.,  LL.D. 

as  the  President  of  the  rniz'crsity 

in   the  Public  Hall 

at  the  rni-eersity  of  J'iri^inia 

on  Thursday,  the  thirteoith  of  .If^ril.  1905 

at  four  o'clock 

CO^LMITTEE  OF  ARRAXGE^IEXTS. 

Board  of  Visitors. — Daniel  Harmon,  Eppa  Hunion,  Jr.,  R. 
Walton  Moore. 

Factlty. — John  .Staige  Davis,  James  ^forris  Page,  John  William 
Mallet,  Richard  Henry  Wilson. 

Alumni.— John  W.  I'idil.urne,  R.  T.  W.  Duke,  Jr..  Murray  Af. 
McGuire. 

Music. — P)y  tlie  L'niversity  Orchestra,  isoberl  l\(i^>er.  Leader. 

c"()MMi'rri':i".  ox  ixst.m.l.mtox. 

Dr.  joii.v    Staiiie   1)a\is,  Chairman. 

Dr.  John  W.  Mallei,  Professor  Richard  II.  WiLon,  Or.  James 
Morris  Page. 


OF  TIIK   INIVKKSITY   OK  VIKl.lMA. 


Dr.  Tohn  Staigc  Davis,  Chairman  of  the  Coniniittce  on  Installa- 
tion, was  born  at  the  University  of  Virginia  in  1866.  His  father,  for 
whom  he  was  named,  was  the  distinguished  profesor  of  anatomy  in 
the  same  institution,  and  a  great-great  nephew  of  Thomas  Jefferson. 
His  mother,  before  her  marriage,  was  Caroline  Hill,  a  descendant  of 
the  Garlick  family,  of  England. 

His  early  education  was  obtained  in  private  and  public  .schools. 
In  1SS2  he  entered  the  Academic  Department  of  the  University  of  Vir- 
ginia, but  the  death  of  his  father  in  1885  interrupted  his  course  and 
obliged  him  to  accept  the  position  of  Instructor  in  .\ncient  Languages 
in  the  Universitv.  A  year  later  he  resumed  his  course  and  in  1889  he 
had  secured  the  degrees  of  Master  of  Arts  and  Doctor  of  Medicine. 
The  next  three  vears  were  spent  in  post-graduate  work  at  Tulane  Uni- 
veritv,  and  in  Berlin  and  \'ienna.  In  1892  Dr.  Davis  settled  in  \cw 
Orleans  as  a  practitioner  of  medicine  and  was  appointed  on  the  visiting 
staff  of  the  Charity  Hosi)ital  of  that  city,  as  an  assistant  in  nervous 
diseases  and  pathology. 

In  1893  he  was  called  back  to  his  ciliiui  water  as  demonstrator  of 
medical  biologv  and  pathology:  the  next  year  he  was  elected  adjunct- 
professor  of  pathology  and  hygiene,  and  in  1900  was  made  full  profes- 
sor of   i)athology   and   i)ractice   of   medicine,    which    jiosition   he   now 

holds. 

Dr.  Davis  is  a  member  of  the  \irginia  State  Me.hcal  .Sociely.  the 
American  Medical  As.sociation  and  the  American  Academy  of  Med- 
icine. He  is  the  author  of  an  "Abstract  of  General  Pathology."  and 
of  occasiiMial  pajjers  on  other  medical  subjects. 


Robert  AIaskell  Patterson. 


James  Francis  Harrison. 


William   .M\xn  Tiioknton. 


James  Mokuls  \\\c,\- 


chairmen    of    the    Faculty 


S25- 


903 


The  lirst  session  of  the  new  Lnivorsily  l)cyan  in  April,  iS_'5.  Mr. 
Jefferson  desired  the  largest  possible  measure  of  freedom  to  the  students. 
All  but  two  of  his  professors  (George  Tucker  and  John  P.  Knnnet )  being 
both  of  foreign  birtii  and  education,  and  accustomed  to  the  personal  lil)erty 
of  the  European  universities,  everything  was  favorable  for  a  fair  lest  of 
the  founder's  theory. 

The  trial  led  to  executive  problems  that  i)erple.\ed  the  chairmen  in, 
the  early  years,  but  today,  by  an  adjustment  of  conditions  which  required 
years  for  its  accomplishment  —  years  often  marked  with  serious  disorder  — 


IV..  VII.— 1SJ5-26,  iSjS. 

TiKORdK    Tr(  KKR. 


ls^-'-.?.i 


the  government  is  so  satisfactory  that  there  is  no  chahng  under  its  rule  by 
any  student  of  i)roper  mental  and  moral  condition;  and  if  there  were  any 

57 


58  IXSTALLATION    OF  THE   FIRST   PRESIDENT 

disposition  to  revive  the  old  manifestations  of  discord  and  rebellion  tlie 
public  sentiment  of  the  matriculates  would  afYord  a  sufficient  corrective. 

But  other  cares  came  to  harass  the  chairmen,  responsibilities  which 
increased  with  the  expanding  life  of  the  University.  Long  before  tlie 
regime  of  the  chairmen  ended,  that  officer  had  ceased  to  be  a  policeman 
or  a  judge  to  charge  or  condemn,  and  become  a  captain, —  not  strictly  of 
industry,  but  of  sociological  forces,  responsible  for  planning  and  executing 
the  enterprises  of  a  great  university  as  it  kept  step  with  the  age.  Now 
that  that  stage  of  the  institution's  history  is  concluded,  some  notice  of  the 
men  who  guided  the  afTairs  of  the  University  in  the  way  of  internal 
administration  from  the  foundation  until  this  year  may  be  interesting. 

The  first  man  to  exercise  the  authority  of  Chairman  of  the  University 
of  Virginia  was  John  P.  Emmet.  "  At  a  meeting  of  the  professors  of 
the  University,  holden  at  the  house  of  Professor  Key  on  the  evening  of 
the  I2th  of  April  [1825],  Professor  George  Tucker  was  elected  Chairman 
of  the  Faculty  for  the  present  year."  At  the  same  meeting  of  the  Faculty 
—  attended  by  Professors  Long,  Key,  Emmet,  Bonnycastle,  BU-ettcrmann, 
and  Dunglison  —  it  was  resolved  that  "owing  to  and  during  the  absence 
of  Professor  Tucker,  Professor  Emmet  be  Chairman." 

Professor  Key's  residence,  where  this  first  official  assemliling  of  the 
Faculty  took  place,  was  the  third  pavilion  on  East  Lawn. 

The  next  meeting  was  at  the  home  of  Professor  Dunglison.  in  what 
is  now  the  residence  of  Professor  Lile,  and  occurred  on  the  following 
evening.     Professor  Tucker  first  signs  the  minutes  of  April   z"/,   \^2^. 

Mr.  Tucker  was  born  under  the  English  flag,  in  one  of  the  Bernuula 
Lslands,  in  August,  1775.  At  seventeen  he  began  the  study  of  law  with 
George  Bascom,  but  three  years  later  lie  came  to  Virginia  and  entered 
William  and  Mary  College,  and  pursued  his  studies  under  the  guidance  of 
his  uncle,  St.  George  Tucker.  George  Tucker  became  distinguished  as 
a  lawyer,  was  elected  to  the  Virginia  Legislature,  then  to  Congress,  where 
lie  remained  six  years,  winning  a  high  position  as  debater  and  consti- 
tutional lawyer.  From  Congress  he  came  to  the  University  of  Virginia 
in  1825  as  Professor  of  Moral  Philosophy  and  Political  Economy,  and 
served  until  1845.  He  was  an  industrious  literary  worker.  The  list 
of   his   books   includes    more   than   a    di)zen    vulumcs,    the   subjects    ranging 


from  novels  to   treatises  on   government  an 

<1   s.iciology. 

He  died   in    1861. 

While   at   the    University   he    resided    in    the 

])a\ilion    at 

the   south    end   of 

West  Lawn. 

Professor  Tucker  was  thrice  Chairman  • 

—  in   1S25  ai 

id   1S2S  by  aiiiioiiit- 

ment  of  the  l-'acully,  and  fnun   iS,:;.'  to   iS,^,:; 

by  (lesignat 

ioii  of  the  \'isitors. 

.At  the  first  meeting  of  the    b'aculty    Dr. 

Dun 

tary.      When,  on   December   10,   1S25,  the   l'"ac 

ulty  c 

for  the  next  session,  the  young  founder  of 

it>  a: 

nated.     Fie  was  approaching  his  Iwenty-iigl 

lib  bi 

at  Keswick,  England,  January  4,   17()X,  and  h 

ad  re 

1  was  chosen  Secre- 
to  select  a  Chairman 
il  School  was  desig- 
y,  having  been  born 
d  his  medical  etluca- 


OF   riiK  iM\  i:k.- 


>l     \II<(.I.NI\. 


59 


tioii  in  London  ;in<l  ;it  Mrlani^on.  lie  cann.'  to  tin.-  L'nivi-r-iiy  of  N'irninia 
in  iSj4,  crossini;  llu'  ocean  in  "  Tlu-  Coni|><-'tit<)r "  will)  Honnycasllc  and 
Key.  The  voyayo.  in  what  rmfcssor  Lonj^  afterward  descrilicd  as  "an 
old  log."  reqnireil  four  months,  six  weeks  of  which  were  spent  heatint; 
about  the  Enj^lish  Channel.  Dungli.soi,  soon  took  a  liiRh  rank  as  teaclu-r 
and  writer,  and  was  Mr.  JetTcrson's  favorite  physician.  In  \Xx^  he  went 
to  the  I'niversity  of  Maryland  as    I'rofes-or  of  Therapentics,  and  later  to 


II.,  v.— iSjO,   i8jS-jo. 

ROBLEY    DfNC.LISON. 


Jefferson  Medical  College.  I'hiladelphia.  to  take  the  Chair  of  the  Institutes 
of  Medicine.  He  died  .\pril  i,  iHixj.  Dr.  Dunglison  was  Chairman  of 
the  Faculty  for  i.Sj6  and  from  1828  to  1830.  and  lived  in  the  pavilion  at 
the  foot  of  East  Lawn.  Me  held  his  second  term  through  election  l>y  the 
Visitor.s,  and  enjoyed,  the  distinction  of  heing  the  tirst  Chairman  designated 
by  them. 


III.— 1SJ7-2S. 

IN     T.WLOE    LoM.W. 


Tile  third  Chairman  appointed  by  the  I"actilty  was  John  Tayloc  Lomax, 


60  INSTALLATION    OF  THE   FIRST   PRESIDENT 

who  came  to  tlie  L'ni\crsily  from  I'Vcdcricksljurg,  wliere  he  had  established 
himself  for  the  practice  of  law,  after  graduation  from  St.  John's  College, 
Maryland.  He  soon  became  a  familiar  and  striking  figure  in  Williamsburg 
and  Richmond,  whither  he  went  frequently  to  attend  court,  and  where 
he  came  into  contact  with  Mr.  Wirt,  who  induced  Mr.  Jefferson  to  appoint 
him  Professor  of  Law  in  the  University.  He  thus  became  the  founder  of 
that  department.  As  a  lecturer  he  was  graceful  and  careful  of  his  style, 
which  inclined  to  rhetorical  elegance.  The  Faculty  minutes  bear  testi- 
mony to  disagreements  between  the  students  and  other  professors,  but 
give  none  of  lack  of  harmony  with  the  Professor  of  Law.  Among  those 
who  studied  under  him  were  R.  'SI.  T.  Hunter,  .\lexander  H.  H.  Stuart, 
and  Robert  Toombs. 

In  1830  Professor  Lomax,  who,  while  at  the  University,  resided  in 
the  second  pavilion  on  West  Lawn,  resigned  his  chair  to  accept  the  judge- 
ship of  the  Fredericksburg  circuit.  He  also  conducted  a  private  law  school, 
in  which  he  taught  such  men  as  Judge  W.  S.  Barton,  Judge  Robert  ]\Ion- 
tague,  and  General  Dabney  H.  Maury.     Judge  Lomax  died  October  i,  1862. 

A  grandson  describes  him  as  of  full  stature,  well  proportioned,  digni- 
fied, and  of  imposing  presence,  but  of  manners  so  simple,  cordial,  and 
affable,  and  with  a  face  so  benign  in  its  expression,  as  to  attract  all  with 
whom  he  came  in  contact. 

VI.— 1830-32. 
Robert   ^Lxskell   Patterson. 

Dr.  Robert  'SI.  Patterson  had  achieved  scholarly  distinction  before  his 
selection  as  a  professor  in  this  University.  He  had  pursued  academical 
and  medical  studies  in  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  until  crowned  with 
the  Master's  degree  and  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine,  after  which  he 
went  to  Europe,  and  was  two  years  under  Haiiy,  Thenard,  and  Gay  Lussac 
in  Paris,  and  in  London  he  heard  the  last  course  of  lectures  delivered  by 
Davy.  For  a  time  he  was  Consul-Ck'neral  at  Paris,  much  to  Xapoleon's 
disgust  at  the  name  of  Patterson,  which  was  that  of  Jerome's  .American 
wife.  On  his  way  home  on  the  Constitution  ("Old  Ironsides"),  as  the 
bearer  of  important  dispatches,  he  heard  for  the  lirst  lime  of  the  declaration 
of  the  War  of  1812. 

In  1813  he  was  appointed  a  professor  in  the  University  of  Pennsylvania, 
and  fifteen  years  later  he  came  to  the  University  of  Virginia  as  Professor 
of  Natural  Philosophy.  During  his  connection  with  this  institution  lie 
occupied  the  third  pavilion  on  West  Lawn,  where  he  dispensed  a  lavish 
and  graceful  hospitality. 

The  office  of  Chairman  was  doubtless  a  great  burden  to  one  of  his 
gentle  and  kindly  disposition,  and  he  reliiKiuished  it  after  two  years,  in 
1832.  In  1X35  Dr.  P;itlerson  accei)te(l  the  invitation  of  President  Jackson 
to  become  Director  of  the  L'nited  States  Mint,  lie  died  in  Septeml)er, 
1854- 


VIKi.IMA. 


6i 


l'riito>s.)r  Cliarlc-^   l!<miiyc;i>tlc   was  tlu-  I'lftli   I 
of    llic    cliairmaiiship. 
fstccnied  by  professors 

Cliarles  Hoiiincastl 


rci>i'  tlu-  aiitliority 
■ci'iviiij^  appoinlimiit  in  iS.^.v  Ik-  was  liinlily 
ml  stiuicnls,  l)otli  for  his  moiital  and  social  K^h'^- 
was  horn  al  Woolwicli,  luiyhuul, -in  1792,  tlic  son 


of  Jolni   Bonnycastlc.   long  a   mathi'matical   master  at   the   Royal    Military 
Academy,     lie  came  over  witli  t>ther  English  professors  in  the  "  Com|)Oti- 

tor."     Anecdotes  have  heen   preserved   that   sliou    that    liis   liumor  and   wit 


ClIAKI.KS     I'.ONNYl  ASM  K. 

lightened  the  heavy  moments  of  that  long  and  «iie,ii>  unu.i  \...wikv. 
Giving  his  honrs  to  hooks  to  the  exchision  of  proper  exercise,  his  health, 
never  robnst,  declined  rapidly,  and  he  died  at  the  age  of  forty-eight,  in 
the  fourth  pavilion  on  East  Lawn,  and  was  hnried  in  the  I'niversity  ceme- 
tery.    He  was  Chairman  from  18 v^  to  iSj?;. 


Within  two  weeks  after  the  .students  had  convened  to  pay  a  trihute  of 


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IXSTALI.ATIOX    OF  THE   FIRST   PRESIDENT 


respect  to  Professor  Bonnycastle.  they  were  called  together  to  take  similar 
action  in  regard  to  his  successor  in  the  chairmanship.  Professor  John  A. 
G.  Davis,  who  was  killed  by  a  student  in  front  of  his  residence,  the  last 
pavilion  on  East  Lawn,  on  the  night  of  November  12,  1840.  Professor 
Davis,  at  the  time  of  the  tragedy,  was  serving  his  second  term  as  Chairman 


IX..  XL— 18,^5-37,  18,^9-40. 
John  A.  G.  D.wis. 

(1839- '40),  his  first  having  begun  in  1835  and  ended  two  years  later.  The 
students  resolved  to  \icw  "  the  author  of  the  outrageous  crime  only  in  the 
light  of  a  base  assassin." 

Mr.  Davis  took  up  his  residence  in  Charbittesville  in  1824.  at  the  age 
of  twenty-two.  In  association  with  Nicholas  ?>.  Trist  and  Thomas  Walker 
Gilmer  he  edited  The  I'irginia  Advocate,  and  upheld  the  political  philosophy 
of  ]\[adison  and  Jefiferson.  At  the  age  of  twenty-eight,  but  looking  younger, 
he  succeeded  Professor  Lomax  in  the  School  of  Law.  His  son.  Dr.  John 
Staige  Davis,  and  his  grandson.  Dr.  John  Staige  Davis,  Jr.,  have  followed 
him  in  the  Faculty,  and  thus  from  1830  to  the  present,  witli  two  brief 
intervals,  this  family  has  shared  with  conspicuous  ability  and  di>linclion 
in  the  achievements  of  the  L"niversitv. 


Dr.   Harrison  was  made  Chairman  i 
first  incumbency. 

He    was    born    at    I  larrisonburg    in 


1837. 


ng  Professor  l^avis 
1    of    Dr.    Peachv    1 


II?;    LNIVKkSI  IV    (IK    \IK(.!M.\. 


63 


ll;irri-,m.  and  u;i>  disiimd  t.>  h\-  fjillu-r's  prMiVsNimi.  I'n-parr.l  for  college 
at  private  sclumls  ami  l)y  tiitiir>,  he  i-iitiTi-d  tlu-  L'iiivi-r>ily  in  lSj3,  and 
k'll  inidor  tlio  spoil  of  the  elegant  .■nd  scholarly  (ieornc  Long  and  "  tlic 
remarkalile  liniruist,"  Dr.  Hla-ttennann.  in  llie  course  of  time,  proliiiuK 
hy  the  scholarship  and  aided  l>y  the  judgment  and  frientlship  of  Mr.  Long, 
the  student  became  a  professor,  succeeding  in  the  Chair  of  Latin  and  (ireek 
"that  most  amiable  man  of  line  understanding,"  Professor  Long  himself. 
A  few  years  later  the  Professor  added  to  his  pedagogical  labors  the  admiii- 


x.,  .\ii.,  .wii.— iS.^j-.vj.   1X^0-4.'.   1S47-54. 
Ge.-^snkk    1  I,\kki.so.\. 

istrative  details  of  the  Chairman's  office.  Mis  first  term  (iSi7-'.19)  fol- 
lowed Profes.sor  Davis's  first  occupancy  of  the  chair,  and  when  that  ini for- 
tunate man  was  assassinated,  something  in  the  character  oi  the  young 
Virginian  led  the  Board  of  Visitors  to  call  him  for  the  second  time  to  this 
responsible  post  (  iS40-'42).  lie  died  in  XeNon  County  on  the  "th  of  April, 
1862. 


Henry   St.   George    Tucker   was  a   xoii   <<i   St.    ( leorge   Tucker,   a   half- 
brother  of  John   Randolph   of   Koanoke,  and   a   cousin  of  George   Tucker. 


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the  first  Chairman  of  the  I'^aculty.  He  was  liberally  educated  under  tlie 
supervision  of  his  father,  a  professor  in  William  and  Alary,  and  had  for 
fellow-students  Joseph  C.  Cabell  and  Chapman  Johnson.  He  studied  law 
under  his  father.  Beginning  his  profession  in  Winchester,  he  soon  built 
up  a  large  practice,  some  of  which  was  in  connection  with  the  estate  of 
Lord  Fairfax,  of  Greenway  Court.  While  still  under  thirty-five,  Mr. 
Tucker  was  elected  to  Congress,  where  he  was  the  colleague  of  Clay, 
Webster,  Calhoun,  Randolph,  Barbour,  Tyler,  Pinckney,  and  others  who 
filled  ■■  those  spacious  times, '"  and  upon  the  reorganization  of  the  Virginia 
Court  of  Appeals    ( 1S31  )   he  was  made   President  of  the  Court.     He  vir- 


.xiii. — 1842-45. 
Henry  St.  Geokck  Titkek. 


tually  declined  aiipoinluK-nl  by  I'rcvidrnt  Jacks,  ,n  i,,  the  .\ttorncy-(  icneral- 
ship  of  the  Tnited  .Stales,  and  continued  on  the  bench  until  1S41,  wlien  he 
resigned  to  accept  the  Professorship  of  i.aw  in  the  l'niver>ily  of  \'irginia. 
In  1842  he  was  a])i)oinled  Chairm.an,  succeeding  Dr.  llarri>on  in  that  office, 
and  signalized  his  occn])ancy  b}'  est;d)lisliing  the  honor  system  in  examina- 
tions, which  has  ])revailed  here  ever  since  as  a  great  t'orce  in  the  moral  life 
of  the  institution,  i'rofessor  Tucker  had  been  a  member  of  the  b'aculty 
but    a    yvAV    wlu'u    this    a])pointment    dt'VoKed    upon    him    the    duties    of    the 


OK  TllK   IMXKKSITV   (»l     \  IKi.lMA.  O5 

exL-cutivf  orticc,  uliioli  Ik-  (liNchaiKt-d  until   Ik-  was  succeeded  l)y   I'rcjfcssor 
Coiirtciiay. 

He  retired  from  liis  cliair  in  1S45  (ui  account  ..f  ill-lK-alth.  wliicli 
began  with  a  sligiit  attack  of  paralysis  soon  after  iiis  arrival  at  the  Uni- 
versity, aiul  died  in  Winchester  in  1S4.S,  He  was  father  of  the  late  distin- 
guisheii  lawyer.  John  Randolph  'l"iK-ker,  of  Lexington  In.k'i-  i  ii.-ki-r  Imd 
in  the  pavilion  at  the  >outIi  end  of  l-jist  Lawn. 

XIV.— 1S44-45. 

WlI.LIA.M    H.\kTo.\    RiM.HK.S. 

William  Barton  Rogers  came  to  the  University  in  i.S?5,  as  tlie  successor 
of  Dr.  Patterson  in  the  Chair  of  Natural  Philosophy,  and  had  lieen  liere 
nine  years  before  lie  w.is  made  Chairman  of  the  L\iculty.  lie  held  the 
vexatious  office  but  one  year. —  one  of  the  most  turbulent  in  the  history  of 
the  institution.  Soon  after  his  appointment  to  the  University  he  was  put 
in  charge  of  the  Virginia  Geological  Survey,  for  which  the  Legislature  had 
made  provision  the  preceding  March.  In  this  field,  it  is  I)elieved,  he  won 
his  earliest  laurels,  if  not  his  greatest  distinction  in  the  world  of  science. 
Resigning  his  professorship  in  1853.  Mr.  Rogers  went  to  Boston,  and  in 
time  founded  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology.  He  died  in  the 
public  hall  of  that  institution  whilst  addressing  the  graduating  class  of 
1882. 

Whilst  a  professor  at  the  University  of  Virginia  he  resided  in  Pavilion 
VI.  tile  third  house  on  East  Lawn. 

XV.— 1845-46. 
Edward  Henry  CofRTENAV. 

Professor  Courtenay  succeeded  Professor  Rogers  in  the  chairmansliip. 
Like  him,  he  served  but  one  year,  and  was,  no  doubt,  glad  to  be  relieved 
of  the  care  and  toil  incident  to  the  office. 

^Ir.  Courtenay  was  graduated  first  in  his  class  at  West  Point  at  the 
age  of  eighteen,  when  he  was  appointed  to  the  Engineering  Corps,  and  then 
made  Assistant  Professor  of  Natural  and  Experimental  Philosophy  at  the 
Academy.  At  the  age  of  twenty-six  he  was  advanced  to  full  professor. 
Thence  he  went  to  the  L'niversity  of  Pennsylvania  as  Professor  of  Mathe- 
matics. Two  years  later  he  was  a  division  engineer  of  the  Eric  Railroad, 
in  charge  of  construction  of  F'ort  Independence,  Boston  harbor,  the  Brook- 
lyn Navy  Yard  drydock,  and  other  important  works. 

Mr.  Courtenay  came  to  the  University  in  1842,  at  the  age  of  thirty-nine, 
and  died  here  in  the  fall  of  1853  in  Pavilion  i,  the  first  on  West  Lawn. 


Dr.  Cabell  was  born  in  Nelson  County,  Virginia.  .Xugust  26.  1813.  He 
received  his  academic  training  at  this  University,  his  medical  education 
here  and  at  the  University  of  Maryland,  and  supi)Ieniented  this  by  special 
courses  in  Philadelnhia  and  Paris. 


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INSTALLATION    OF    THE    FIR^ 


In  1837  he  was  called  from  his  studies  in  the  I-'rench  capital  to  the 
Chair  of  Anatomy  and  Surgery  in  the  University  of  Virginia  to  succeed 
Dr.  Warner.  He  continued  to  hold  Chairs  in  the  Medical  Department 
here  until  his  resignation  from  the  Faculty  in  1889.  after  fifty-two  years  of 


XVL — 1846-47. 
James  Lawrence  Cabell. 

service.  He  was  Chairman  of  the  h'aculty  for  one  year  (1846-47),  his 
residence  \\hil>t  at  the  University  heing  Pavilion  t,  the  first  on  East  Lawn. 
He  died  .\ugusi    1.5,   1889. 


The  longest  continuous  service  as  Chairman  wa>  that  of  Dr.  Socrates 
Maupin.  who  entered  upon  the  duties  of  the  office  in  1854  and  continued 
at   the  post  until    1870. 

Dr.  Maupin  was  horn  in  1808.  ])rohahly  in  .Mhemarle  County.  \'irginia, 
and  was  educated  at  the  Cnivcrsity  (if  X'irginia.  i\ccei\ing  his  medical 
degree  in  18,^0,  he  entered  the  .Acadennc  Department,  and  was  graduated 
a  Ma.ster  of  .Xrts  in   i8,:i3.      In   18.^8  he  was  chosen    Professor  of  Chemistrv 


■.\i\  i:i;si  I  V 


67 


in  the  Mo.lical  Cliche  ;it  Kiclnnciiid.  aii.l  lifni-n  years  laii-r  caiiu-  tu  tlic 
same  Chair  al  iln-  Liii\  irMty  ..f  X'irKiiiia.  I  lu-  full.)\viii)r  year  tin-  orticc 
of  Cliairniaii  was  imposed  iiix.ii  liim.  and  throiiKlumt  his  h.iiK  iiictiiiil)ency 
ho  showed  iniuli  ^kill  in  inaiiitaiiiiiiK  discipline 


will.—  iN;4-7(i. 

Six  KATES    MaII'IN. 

Dr.  Maiipin  was  killed  in  Lynchhiirj!:,  October   10.   1S71,  as  a  result  of 
leaping  from  an  ambnlance  wlu)se  horses  had  become  nnmanaKt'ahlc.     His 

residence  at  the  I'niversitv  was   Pavilion  S.  on   r-!ast  Lawn. 


Colonel  Venable  was  Cliairman  lirst  from  1S70  to  iS;.?.  and  then  from 
1886  to  1888, —  his  lirst  service  succeeding  that  of  Dr.  Manpin.  and  his 
second  that  of  Dr.  James  V.  Harrison.  None  of  his  predecessors  had 
commanded  more  respect,  and  perhaps  to  none  of  tiu-m  had  been  awarded 
so  large  a  measure  of  the  affection  of  the  students.  He  was  born  in  I'rincc 
Edward  County,  Virginia.  April  ly,  iSj".  and  eilucated  at  Hampden-Sidney 
College  (which  his  grandfather  had  founded),  the  University  of  Virginia, 
and  at  Berlin:  and  tilled  chairs  in  Hampdcn-Sidney,  the  I'niversity  of 
Georgia,  and  the  I'niversity  of  South  Carolina,  prior  to  the  war      He  came 


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to  ihc  University  of  Virginia  as  a  professor  from  the  campaigns  of  Robert 
E.  Lee.  whose  aide-de-camp  Itc  was,  and  his  active  service  in  the  Chair  of 


XLX.  — 1870-73,    1886-88. 

Charles  Scott  Venable. 

Mathematics  extended  from  1865  until  he  was  made  cjiicritiis  in  1896. 
His  residence  at  the  ITniversity  was  Pavilion  S,  the  fnurth  house  on  East 
Law'n.     He  died  at  his  home  in  Charl(iUes\ille.  August  ti.  igoo. 

XX.— 1873-76. 
James  Francis  Harrison. 


Dr.  James  1'.  llarrison  was  the  fourteenth  professor  to  exercise  the 
office  of  Chairman,  lie  was  a  native  of  h'airfax  County.  \'irginia,  and 
of  English  and  Irish  ance-try.  Ili>  fathvr.  Rev.  Timothy  J.  Harrison,  was 
a  chaplain  in  the  I'niled  States  Xavy  hy  api)ointm(.-nt  ( )ctol)cr  2.  iS_>().  and 
stationed  for  some  lime  at  Norfolk.  The  son  was  a])poinled  apotliecarx. 
and  hy  private  study  prepared  himself  sufficiently  to  he  made  surgeon's 
mate.  Eventually  he  passed  the  necessary  examination  and  was  commis- 
sioned an  assistant  surgeon  in  the  navy,  March  3,  1847.  The  Xav> 
Department    record^    show    thai    hy    ihe    direction    of    the    rresidcnl    of    the 


OK    lilt:   INIVKKMIV  ol-    VIKi.IMA.  6*) 

I'nilcd  Slater,  I  )r  I  larri^mrs  ii;iiik'  was  ilmppcd  I'nmi  tin.-  list  (if  orticcrs 
of  that  arm  of  llu-  scrvicf  on  Juiii-  15.  iSt)i,  in  accordance  with  liis  rcsiK- 
nation  of  that  date.  I-'or  tlircc  years  lie  was  surgeon  in  tlie  Confederate 
States  Xavy.  and  served  as  chief  of  the  Medical  I'.urean  of  that  deparlinent 
and  as  a  menil)er  of  the  Naval  Examining  Hoard. 

Dr.  Harrison  was  stationc<l  at  Norfolk.  \'a..  dnring  the  terrihle  epi- 
demic that  scourged  that  city  in  1853,  and  rendered  services  .so  valuahlc 
and  distinguished  that  they  were  recognized  hy  the  Ciovernmenl  of  I-rance 
in  the  i)csto\val  of  a  gold  medal,  and  hy  the  Corporation  of  {'..rtsinoulh  hy 
a  like  mark  of  recognition  and  esteem.  In  the  so-called  "  Paraguay  War  ' 
he  was  with  Admiral  Shuhrick.  who  was  dispatched  to  South  .Xmerica  to 
demand  of  the  government  apology  and  indemnity  fr)r  tiring  on  an  Amer- 
ican vessel,  hoth  of  which  were  rendered. 

Dr.  Harrison  was  elected  Professor  of  Medicine  and  Medical  Juris- 
prudence in  1867.  and  hecame  Chairman  of  the  University  in  1873.  In 
1886  he  severed  his  connection  with  the  University,  where  his  residence 
had  been  the  second  Pavilion  on  West  Lawn,  and  resided  in  I'rince  l-'dward 
County,  where  he  died  January  17.  1894.  He  was  buried  at  the  United 
States  Naval   Hospital  cemetery.  Norfolk.  Va. 

xxii.— 1888-cX). 
\\'iii.i-\M   MvNX  Thornton. 

William  Mynn  Thornton,  son  of  Colonel  John  T.  Thornton,  of  Cum- 
berland County.  Virginia,  was  born  Octolier  j8.  1S51.  Graduated  from 
Hampden-Sidney  College  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  .-\rts  at  the  age 
of  seventeen,  he  entered  the  University  of  Virginia  as  a  student  in  special 
engineering  courses.  I-Vom  1874  to  1875  he  was  Professor  of  Greek  in 
Davidson  College.  North  Carolina.  In  the  latter  year  he  was  elected 
Adjunct  Professor  of  .Applied  Mathematics  and  Civil  Kngineering  in  the 
University  of  Virginia,  and  seven  years  later,  Professor  of  Applied  Mathe- 
matics. For  some  years  he  has  been  Dean  of  the  Department  of  Engi- 
neering. 

Professor  Thornton  has  delivered  many  occasional  addresses,  all  of 
them  strikingly  conceived  and  bearing  the  stamp  of  a  style  at  once  strong 
and  stately.  His  brochure  on  Charles  Scott  Venable.  his  predecessor  as 
Chairman,  will  survive  as  a  classic  in  its  field.  In  1900  Professor  Thornton 
was  appointed  United  States  Commissioner  to  the  I'aris  Expositi<jn. 

Professor  Thf)rnton  was  Vice-Chairman  imder  Cohmel  Venable  for 
two  years  (1886-8).  and  succeeded  his  chief,  whom  he  greatly  revered,  in 
1888.  continuing  in  office  luitil  l8(/).  His  residence  is  on  Monroe  Mill,  so 
named  from  the  fact  that  President  Monn.i's  ..Id  law  olVice  is  on  the 
premises. 


Dr.  Paul  B.  Barringer  was  born  in  Concord.  N.  C,  February  13.  1837. 
the  son  of  General  Rufus  and  Eugenia  (  Morrison)  Barringer.     He  received 


70 


ATIOX    OF    THE    FIRST 


his  education  at  tlie  ]^)iiig"liam  Scliool,  in  liis  native  State;  at  the  Kenmore 
School,  in  X'lrginia,  and  at  the  Universit.v  of  Virginia,  consecutively.  He 
entered  as  a  student  in  the  Medical  Department  at  the  University  of  Vir- 
ginia, following  the  early  l)ent  of  his  mind  in  the  direction  of  this  science. 
and  was  graduated  here  in  1877.  He  then  entered  tlie  University  of  the 
City  of  New  York,  where  he  was  graduated  in  1878,  heing  thus  equipped 
for  the  practice  of  medicine  as  soon  as  he  became  of  age.  After  three  years 
of   successful    practice    in    Dallas.    N.    C,    Dr.    Rarringer   went   ahroad,   antl 


\xiii. — i8y6-roo,^ 

r.\ri.    I'>R.\N1K>N     r>.\KUIX(;KI<. 


passed  a  year  in  the  scientific  centres  of  luu-ope,  studying  with  specialists  of 
distinclion.  On  hi^  return,  in  1884,  he  connected  himself  with  Davidson 
College,  Norlh  Carolina,  continuing  four  years  with  that  institution  and 
in  general  pr.iriice.  and  in  working  upon  his  specialties,  among  which  are 
diseases  of  the  eye.  In  18S8  he  was  elected  to  the  Chair  of  Physiology  and 
Materia   AU'cJira   in   the    L'niversity  of   Virginia. 

In  18./.  he  was  called  to  the  oilice  of  Chairman  of  the  I'acuHy,  and 
during  tlu'  se\en  years  of  his  incuml)ency  perlMrmed  \a1uahK'  service  for 
the  institution. 


OK  THE   IM\KI<SITY   oK  \  ll<(il\l.\.  Jl 

111  the  nu'ilical  and  scionlilic  or.naiiizatioiis  cf  ilic  State  lie  liolds  a 
proniinent  place,  whilst  his  ahilities  and  dev(jtii)ii  to  his  profession  arc 
conceded  wherever  he  is  known,  and  his  reputation  is  well  and  widely 
estahlished.  To  tlie  literature  of  his  jirofe^sion  Dr.  P.arrin^Jer  ha>  coiitrih- 
nted  many  valuaMe  nionoyraplis. 

wiv. — i<>o.<-04. 

'riiF.   Last   Cil.\n<.\i.\N   ok  tiik    1- aiit.tv. 

Dk.  Ja.mks  Mokkis  Pack. 

Dr.  James  Morris  Page,  the  last  Chairniaii  of  the  I'aciilty  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Virginia,  was  horn  on  the  4lh  of  March,  1X64.  in  .Mhemarle 
County.  Virginia.  His  father  was  the  late  Thomas  Walker  Page,  and  his 
mother,  before  her  marriage,  was  Miss  Nancy  Watson  Morris,  of  Louisa 
County,  Virginia.  On  his  father's  side  he  is  descended  from  the  well- 
known  Page  family,  of  \irginia.  the  first  member  of  which.  Colonel  John 
Page,  settled  in  the  colony  in  1650.  and  was  a  member  of  Mis  ^^^iesty's 
Council. 

Dr.  Page's  early  education  was  obtained  from  his  father,  who  was  a 
graduate  of  the  University  of  Virginia,  and  from  a  day  school  which  he 
attended  for  a  time  in  Louisa  County.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  entered 
the  Randolph-Macon  College,  Virginia,  where  he  was  graduated  with  tlie 
degree  of  Master  of  Arts,  and  where  he  carried  off  all  the  prizes  offered 
in  the  Academic  Department,  and  was  appointed  Assistant  to  the  Chair  of 
Mathematics,  which  he  filled  during  the  last  two  years  of  his  sojourn  there. 
After  his  graduation  he  went  to  the  I'niversity  of  Leipsic  and  pursued 
scientific  studies,  having  the  advantage  of  personal  intercourse  and  friend- 
ship with  such  men  as  Lie,  Klein,  Engel,  and  others.  While  studying 
under  Lie,  the  great  geometer  whose  discoveries  arc  well  known  to  scien- 
tific students,  Dr.  Page  published  several  articles  on  the  "  Theory  of  Trans- 
formation Groups,"  which  brought  him  the  commendation  of  his  great 
teachers.  In  1887  he  was  graduated  from  tlie  L'niversity  of  Leipsic  with 
the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy,  iiuifiiia  cum  loudc.  He  then  returned 
home  and  established  a  boys'  school  at  Cobham,  Va.,  known  as  the  Keswick 
School.  Here  Dr.  Page  taught  for  seven  years,  and  educated  a  numl)cr  of 
clever  young  men,  many  of  whom  have  bad  successful  collegiate  careers 
since  leaving  his  school.  In  1895  Dr.  Page  returned  to  Rurope  to  complete, 
at  Leipsic  and  Paris,  his  work  on  "  Differential  Kf|uations.'*  which  has 
appeared  from  the  press  of  the  Macmillans,  London.  I'pon  his  return  to 
.America,  in  i<S96,  he  was  made  a  Fellow  by  courtesy  of  Johns  Hopkins 
University,  and  invited  to  deliver  a  course  of  lectures  before  the  professors 
and  graduate  students  of  that  institution.  While  there  he  was  elected 
.Adjunct  Professor  of  Pure  Mathematics  in  the  I'niversity  of  Virginia,  and 
later  promoted  to  the  full  professorship.  Upon  the  resignation  of  Dr.  P. 
B.  Barringer  he  was  elected  Chairman  of  the  I'aculty.  and  continued  in 
that  office  until  it  was  changed  to  the  I'residency. 


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And  nowhere  hearts  so  lightly  beat. 
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Down  in  \'irginia. 

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As  old  Virginia ; 
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That  (iod's  ])re])ared  for  mortal  man 
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Of  old    \iro-inia. 


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